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

> > >From: jb85@dial.pipex.com (Simon) > >Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:30:59 GMT > >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.29311> > > > >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"! > > It depends on which country you are in. Excellent point. I gather there are still countries out there using the Gregorian calendar. This topic was brought out in a five (long) part(s) article in soc.roots sereval years ago. I believe I still have three of those parts lying around somewhere. The fellow who wrote it had a long list of each country and when they converted. I gather the reason the Englich didn't switch over for so long was the catholic/protestant thing. Just imagine using a Lunar calendar (used by moslem countries). So maybe the whole point is to emigrate to one of said countries taking our applications with us. cheers j. ________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com Currently on loan to PLD/PE ________________________________________________________________________ Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx) ________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. ________________________________________________________________________