From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!ucbcad!ucbvax:mhtsa!eagle!harpo!npoiv!alice!rhm@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: re: re: Gregorian Great Circle
Article-I.D.: alice.1010
Posted: Sun Oct 24 18:11:26 1982
Received: Sun Oct 31 07:05:23 1982

I would like to hear/see some evidence that:

1. back in Roman times, the year began on March 1.
   It certainly did not during the lifetime of Julius or Augustus, and
   my best information is that the year began in January as far back as
   400 B.C.  Clearly, by the names of the months, something must have
   happened in very early times, but the fact seems to be that the
   Romans of historical times began the year in January, and that this
   was changed (in various ways) during the Christian era.  For example,
   when England changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, they changed