Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Perpetual Calendar Message-ID: <734@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 13:08:19 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.734 Posted: Wed Feb 22 13:08:19 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 13:17:43 EST References: <392@sequent.UUCP>, <1077@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 19 Col. G. L. Sicherman (sunybcs!colonel) writes: If I remember correctly, Pope Gregory preserved the succession of weekdays, but Parliament did not - Monday the 2nd was followed by Saturday the 14th. This makes it impossible to get a meaningful day of the week for any day before September 14, 1752. (I still don't see how Italy and England got together again!) The following things say that your memory is NOT correct: - my memory - the command "cal 9 1752" (see cal(1)) - your own parenthetical comment - the fact that the Christian church would be most unlikely to go along with any change which disturbed the 7-day cycle of Sundays -- which may well have helped stop us from ever changing to a "rational" calendar where one day of the year (two in leap years) would NOT count as part of any week, so that a particular date would always fall on the same weekday. Mark Brader