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- From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
- Newsgroups: alt.mythology,alt.religion.sabaean
- Subject: Re: Where do the months come from?
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:03:18
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <COLUMBUS.92Nov19160318@strident.think.com>
- References: <1992Nov13.214255.7213@schunix.uucp> <Bxz2H0.2zA@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- In-reply-to: eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:43:47 GMT
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- In article <Bxz2H0.2zA@ddsw1.mcs.com> eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com (Eshin-Fun)
- writes:
- [...]
- In 1582 Pope Gregory ordered that ten days should be left out in thyat year
- after the 4th of October was called the 15th.
- The change was not made in England until 1751, when eleven days were dropped
- and it led to a great deal of discontent among uneducated people who thought
- these days had been stolen from them!
- [...]
-
- Those on a unix system may want to look at the manual page for 'cal' (or
- just run cal 1752).
-