Re: Calendar question

Odysseus <odysseus1479-at@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <60afm4h4nhog4fsf03862cd6hkmvm9ve6g@xxxxxxx>,
Dave Typinski <möbius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

A calendar year is not an orbit in much the same way that a map is not
a road. If you lived in the late Sixteenth Century, would you have
worried that Pope Gregory XIII was foreshortening your life by ten
days as he forced you to skip from 04 OCT 1582 directly to 15 OCT
1582?

Apparently some people did at the time.

They sure did. That's what brough that particular event to mind. ;-)
--
Dave

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