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- From: guy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?; Now: Gregorian Calendar
- Message-ID: <11642@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:22:31 GMT
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- rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) writes:
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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.
- >)> --
-
- >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.
-
- It's not really a question of missing days, it's to do with names
- that don't refer to actual days in the calendar. When the start
- of the New Year changed from 25 March to 1 January (which I thought
- was at the same time as the calendar change, but which Dave says
- was on 1 January 1752) there must have been one "short" year which
- didn't contain the dates 1 January to 24 March. I assumed it
- was 1752, but Dave says it was 1751.
-
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