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Subject: Calendars (was Re: Christmas)
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In article <Sep.4.05.56.30.1989.25690@athos.rutgers.edu> kolassa@ysidro.uchicago.edu (Kolassa) writes:
>
>I think the above is correct; however, the number of days by which the
>Julian and Gregorian calendars disagree should be increasing.  Does anyone
>know why the Jan 6 date is fixed, or know that my explanation is 
>wrong?
>
>John Kolassa
On average, the two calendars slip one day further out every 72 years.
However, as the difference occur on the calculation of leap years at
the last year of the century, the slip occured all at once once in 1900,
and the next slip is 2100 AD.  (2000 AD is a leap year by both systems,
I think).