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

Sven Pran <Sven.Pran@alcatel.no> wrote: >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) It was called The Great October Socialist Revloution as it happened on October 25-26, but was celebrated on November 7-8. The Russian Orthodox Church, however, still uses Julian, so the Christmas in Russia is January 7 (I wonder whether they use any accounting software). >regards Sven -------------------------------- Dmitry V. Leskov XDS Products Division Manager xTech Ltd. Novosibirsk, Russia http://www.iis.nsk.su/xtech/xds/ snowman@iis.nsk.su