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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Perpetual Calendar
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 13:08:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 13:08:19 1984
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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