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Article #663Re: Chronology, Computers, and You.
From: wi... William Lewis
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 06:01
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 06:01
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In article <1990Jan5.1...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> tee...@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore) writes: >In article <10...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> ken...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Stephen P. Kendall) writes: >By the time it was moved, the date was eleven days out of step (I know - >what with?), Well, the seasons ... if the equinoxes and such hapened on the 10th instead of the 21st it would be noticeable... If they HADN'T fixed it and spring began to come in February, it would disturb a lot of people... > 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" Yah. Landlords would charge a full month's rent, but employers would deduct 11 days' pay ... and I bet people who had things to do during those eleven days got quite confused. (Well, I was going to fix the roof on Saturday, but Saturday ceased to have been going to exist...) -- wi...@blake.acs.washington.edu (206)526-5885 Seattle, Washington
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!luth!eru!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!usc!samsung!caesar.cs.montana.edu!milton!blake!wiml From: wi...@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Chronology, Computers, and You. Message-ID: <5253@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 8 Jan 90 06:01:21 GMT References: <10516@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1990Jan5.191422.11427@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> Reply-To: wi...@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) Distribution: alt Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 21 Posted: Mon Jan 8 07:01:21 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit