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

Posted in 1996

Bolen Coogler — Wed, 16 Oct 1996 23:34:52 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

jb85@dial.pipex.com (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. >Check it out on UNIX "cal"! >-- >Simon Holt -- System Designer/DBA >** My opinions are not nescessarily those of my employers ** >Britannia Zinc Ltd. Bristol, UK. (+44) 0117 980 2510 1582 is the year Pope Gregory decreed the new calendar. 1752 is when England and Her Colonies (including we, the rebellious 13 across the Atlantic) adopted the new calendar. As far as I know, Russia was the last major country to adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1917, and it took a revolution to do it. --- Bolen Coogler DBA, BellSouth Information Systems