singhals wrote:
> Peter J Seymour wrote:
>
>> Just a thought, stemming from research into calendar differences
>> though history - has anyone knowledge of a person recorded as being
>> born/dying on the 30th February? (and did this cause any problems)
>> Peter
>
> Would whether it was a problem sort of depend on _when_? Under the
> really really old calendars, there was a 30 Feb, and it wouldn't have
> been a problem for anyone. In 1752, things were confused enough that
> anything is possible, and after that, drunken clerks we will have always
> with us. (g)
According to histories of the calendar, February has never had more than
29 days, even in the time of the Roman Republic before Julius Caesar's
overhaul.
Thus any appearance of 30 February in historical records is certainly
the result of clerical ineptitude or inebriation :-)
David Harper
Cambridge, England
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