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- From: eo@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Emma Osman)
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- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?; Now: Gregorian Calendar
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:23:01 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> <28444@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <28444@castle.ed.ac.uk> rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) writes:
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- >
- >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.
- >
- From 1750 onwards, the dates would presumably be:
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- 25th March 1750 -> 24th March 1750 (12 month year)
- 25th March 1751 -> 31st December 1751 (9 and a bit month year)
- 1st January 1752 -> 31st December 1752 (12 month minus 11 days year)
-
- So January and February are indeed missing in 1751.
-
- However, I think everyone's missed a very important issue here. "1/1751"
- presumably refers to the *first* month of 1751 , ie March (or April if you
- want the first full one) So it should be 11/1751 and 12/1751 (January and
- February, of course) which are missing. And of course, all this only applies
- anyway if we're talking about British dates - maybe the writers of the cal
- program are American.
-
- Or maybe they just couldn't be bothered, of course :-)
-
- Emma
-
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