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Article #661Re: Chronology, Computers, and You.
From: tee... Matthew Moore
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 19:14
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 19:14
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In article <10...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> ken...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Stephen P. Kendall) writes: > >Even Jan. 1st being New Year's day is arbitrary, EVEN IN OUR CALENDAR! >In the 18th century (accourding to my almanac), the British moved New Year's >Day from Mar. 25 to Jan 1. How it got there I do not know. It was part of the deal when they changed from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar, the latter being more accurate. By the time it was moved, the date was eleven days out of step (I know - what with?), and eleven days were actually deleted from the calendar, in September 1752 -see man cal.1 (phew! a connection with computers) and there were serious riots on the theme "give us back our eleven days" (New Scientist did a full feature on this a few years ago) -- ++
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!educ-isis!teexmmo From: tee...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Chronology, Computers, and You. Message-ID: <1990Jan5.191422.11427@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> Date: 5 Jan 90 19:14:22 GMT References: <10516@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Reply-To: tee...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) Distribution: alt Organization: Institute of Education University of London Lines: 17 Posted: Fri Jan 5 20:14:22 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit