[HN Gopher] Cal 9 1752 (2004) ___________________________________________________________________ Cal 9 1752 (2004) Author : susam Score : 41 points Date : 2022-12-31 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (susam.net) (TXT) w3m dump (susam.net) | NeoTar wrote: | I'm surprised the Proleptic Gregorian calendar | (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar) | isn't used by default. | dang wrote: | Related: | | _Cal 9 1752_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675668 - | Dec 2021 (30 comments) | Octokiddie wrote: | > The new calendar was adopted in some European countries where 4 | Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct 1582 thereby skipping 10 days in | between. However, it took as long as September 1752 for the new | calendar to be adopted by Britain. In Great Britain and the | British Empire, 2 Sep 1752 was followed by 14 Sep 1752 and that | is the gap of 11 days we see in the cal 9 1752 output. | | This is also the reason that some Christian groups celebrate | Christmas on Jan. 7 rather than Dec. 25: | | > "Christmas on Jan. 7 is also known as Old Christmas Day. Eleven | days were dropped (from the Gregorian calendar) to make up for | the calendar discrepancy that accumulated with the Julian | calendar when England and Scotland switched in 1752," Fr. Sammour | explained. | | https://www.arabnews.com/node/1999461/middle-east | [deleted] | quesera wrote: | % cal 9 1752 September 1752 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | 1 2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 | 30 | | Sometimes, I have weeks that feel exactly like this. | silisili wrote: | Oh yeah, the older I get, the more every month feels like this. | NYE already? I was just sitting on my tailgate watching Fourth | Of July fireworks last month... I'd swear it. | 082349872349872 wrote: | ncal(1) will even (attempt to) do country-specific calendar | changes with _-s_. | rootusrootus wrote: | Google calendar does not reflect this if you look at September | 1752. I'm not sure if that'e because they chose a different | crossover point, or just ignored it altogether. | | Edit: Same for Fastmail | jon-wood wrote: | I suspect they took the opinion it's not worth dealing with the | many potential edge cases to support people who are booking | appointments in the far distant past. How many people have even | gone back that far in Google Calendar, never mind actually | created any calendar events? | throw0101c wrote: | See also: | | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_cale... | | Per the article, 1752 was for the UK (Anglo world). | jvandonsel wrote: | I pity all you heretics who are celebrating the new year tonight. | We followers of The One True Julian Calendar are sitting at home | alone for the next 14 days. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-31 23:00 UTC)