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- From: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- Organization: Lanchester Polytechnic
- References: <BxvnJ1.6Ko@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <Bxvnp4.88C@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.093753.27974@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:57:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.093753.27974@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
- >Weren't you right first time? If the year 1751 started on 25 March
- >and continued until 24 March then there would have been a January 1751
- >(though the cal program would call it January 1752, since its years
- >begin in January). There would have been no January 1752, though,
- >since 1752 began on 25 March (Old Style) and ended on 31 December (New
- >Style).
-
- No I was right the second time. As the 'new' calander wasn't thought up by
- a few people in a pub on 2/9/1752 who thought it would be a good idea to
- wake up the next day on the 13th. The 'new' calander was in planning for
- several years. The transfer was, day after 31/12/1751 is 1/1/1752 and the day
- after 2/9/1752 is 13/9/1752. So it would be the months of January and Febuary
- 1751 which would not exist plus the first 24 days of March 1751.
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- Dave cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
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- Call this place what you like - Coventry University, Coventry Polytechnic or
- Lanchester Polytechnic it is all the same and is called school.
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