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- From: rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?; Now: Gregorian Calendar
- Message-ID: <28444@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:09:26 GMT
- References: <BxvnJ1.6Ko@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <Bxvnp4.88C@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.093753.27974@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <Bxyurt.F5t@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Dept. of Veterinary Pathology, University of Edinburgh
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- In <Bxyurt.F5t@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave) writes:
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- )> 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.
- )> --
- )> Dave cmh004@cck.cov.ac.uk
- )> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- )> Call this place what you like - Coventry University, Coventry Polytechnic or
- )> Lanchester Polytechnic it is all the same and is called school.
-
- Eh??? They must teach a different form of arithmetic in Coventry to
- that which my school taught me more than 30 years ago...
-
- The only missing days I can see there are those between 2/9/1752 and
- 13/9/1752, hence the "Give us back our eleven days" protesters. I
- also understood that the "Twelve Days of Christmas" originated from
- those missing days.
-
- Richard
-
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- Richard W. Bingham, Dept. of Veterinary Pathology, University of Edinburgh,
- Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1QH, Scotland. tel: +44 31 650 6152
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- **** But, in practice, there is. ****
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