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In article <1990Jan5.1...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk>,
tee...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) says:
>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"

Well, out of step with countries which had already switched calendars. By
the time  the British (and the  American colonies) got around  to it they
were  out  of sync  with  other  countries  which had  changed  calendars
earlier. As  a result  they had  to not only  change calendars,  but also
change dates to be in sync with everyone else.
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Jim McIntosh (JIM@AUVM)
The American University
Washington DC 20016 USA