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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: counting years
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Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 10:09:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 29 10:09:50 1986
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> The Gregorian calendar (the one we currently use) was introduced in
> 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII...

On October 5, to be precise.  Which was succeeded by October 15.

>                                        ... The Julian calendar was
> introduced in Rome in 46 B.C.  It established the 12-month, 365 day
> year with each 4th year being a leap year...

The only difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars was
the leap-century correxion--a very small nit, but enough to put the
thing significantly out of synch with the seasons after 1600 years.

> [Excellent synopsis of Jewish, Muhammadan and Hindu lunar calendars]

> Everett Kaser

The French Revolutionary Calendar, adopted in a spate of utopian
fervor by the Revolutionary Convention in 1794, retroactive to
22 September 1792, established 12 months of 30 days each with 5 or 6
intercalary days (depending).  They also tried to turn each month
into 3 weeks of 10 days each--this was a deliberate attack on the
Church--which did not catch on, but mostly because nobody was too
happy about forsaking 1 day off per 7 days for 1 in 10.  At any
rate, it's the French Revolutionary date that appears in my .signature,
and my source program is available for the asking.
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