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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re:  Tropics
Message-ID: <2212@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 12:37:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 12:37:20 1985
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Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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In article <2849@mordor.UUCP> @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley writes:
>	Incidentally, the world shifted to the Gregorian calendar at varying
>times.  The Roman Catholic world did it first, in the 16th Century -- but
>that was after the Schism, and so England didn't follow suit.  For 200 years
>England's calendar trailed the European by first 9, then 10, then 11 days.
>England finally converted in the mid-18th Century, to riots (11 days were
>dropped from the calendar at the stroke of a pen).  Russia converted after
>the Bolshevik revolution; this is why the "October revolution" was really
>held, by Western calendars, in November.

The British changeover (here to as we were still colonies) happened in
1752 (try running "cal 1752" and looking at Sep).  If I had been there
I would have rioted too.  People didn't object to the dropping of the
days form the calandar, what they objected to was that all the landlords
were charging a full months rent for Sep even though it was 11 days short.

Mark Biggar
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