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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:34:00 O
- Reply-To: Tom Sundius U of Helsinki +358 0 1918339 <SUNDIUS@FINUH.BITNET>
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- From: Tom Sundius U of Helsinki +358 0 1918339 <SUNDIUS@FINUH.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: "perpetual" calendar
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- Tom Lincoln says that his program shows the transition from OldStyle
- to Newstyle to happen in Finland on 12/31/1917, i.e. the same date as
- for Russia. This must, however, be wrong, because Finland was a part of
- Sweden when Sweden made the transition on 2/17/1753. Since the NewStyle was
- introduced by the Swedish king already at that time, there was no reason
- for the Russian emperor to introduce the Russian (Oldstyle) calendar in
- Finland when Finland became part of Russia in 1809.
-
- Greetings, Tom S.
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