[HN Gopher] Cal 9 1752 (2004)
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Cal 9 1752 (2004)
Author : susam
Score : 41 points
Date : 2022-12-31 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| NeoTar wrote:
| I'm surprised the Proleptic Gregorian calendar
| (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar)
| isn't used by default.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
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| _Cal 9 1752_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675668 -
| Dec 2021 (30 comments)
| Octokiddie wrote:
| > The new calendar was adopted in some European countries where 4
| Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct 1582 thereby skipping 10 days in
| between. However, it took as long as September 1752 for the new
| calendar to be adopted by Britain. In Great Britain and the
| British Empire, 2 Sep 1752 was followed by 14 Sep 1752 and that
| is the gap of 11 days we see in the cal 9 1752 output.
|
| This is also the reason that some Christian groups celebrate
| Christmas on Jan. 7 rather than Dec. 25:
|
| > "Christmas on Jan. 7 is also known as Old Christmas Day. Eleven
| days were dropped (from the Gregorian calendar) to make up for
| the calendar discrepancy that accumulated with the Julian
| calendar when England and Scotland switched in 1752," Fr. Sammour
| explained.
|
| https://www.arabnews.com/node/1999461/middle-east
| [deleted]
| quesera wrote:
| % cal 9 1752 September 1752 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
| 1 2 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
| 30
|
| Sometimes, I have weeks that feel exactly like this.
| silisili wrote:
| Oh yeah, the older I get, the more every month feels like this.
| NYE already? I was just sitting on my tailgate watching Fourth
| Of July fireworks last month... I'd swear it.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| ncal(1) will even (attempt to) do country-specific calendar
| changes with _-s_.
| rootusrootus wrote:
| Google calendar does not reflect this if you look at September
| 1752. I'm not sure if that'e because they chose a different
| crossover point, or just ignored it altogether.
|
| Edit: Same for Fastmail
| jon-wood wrote:
| I suspect they took the opinion it's not worth dealing with the
| many potential edge cases to support people who are booking
| appointments in the far distant past. How many people have even
| gone back that far in Google Calendar, never mind actually
| created any calendar events?
| throw0101c wrote:
| See also:
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| * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_cale...
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| Per the article, 1752 was for the UK (Anglo world).
| jvandonsel wrote:
| I pity all you heretics who are celebrating the new year tonight.
| We followers of The One True Julian Calendar are sitting at home
| alone for the next 14 days.
| [deleted]
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