Re: HELP! YEAR 2000 BUG: How will it affect you?

Simon wrote: > > abennett@cruzio.com (Andrew Bennett) wrote: > > >By 1582 the accumulated error was estimated to amount to 10 days. In > >that year Pope Gregory XIII decreed that the day following Oct. 4, > >1582, should be called Oct. 15, thus dropping 10 days and initiating > >what became known as the Gregorian calendar. > > I thought it was 1752 that this happened, and it was September... > > The date after the 2nd September 1752 was the 14th September 1752. Guess what: You are probably both correct, and so are several others with various opinions on when this happened. Almost every country had their own date for changing from Julian to Gregorian calendar. One of the last was Russia which didn't change until after the revolution this century. (That is why we have both the October revolution and the November Revolution as names for the same event according to what my teacher told us in basic school) regards Sven