On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:12:40 GMT, David Harper
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> wrote:
>J. Hugh Sullivan wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:50:23 -0500, singhals <singhals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> 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)
>>>
>>> Cheryl
>>
>> Why not a calendar of 12, 30 day months with 5 world days and a sixth
>> every 4 years? That would certainly save our knuckles and between from
>> being counting boards for the months.
>
>The French tried such a calendar early in their Revolutionary period.
>
>It lasted less than thirteen years.
>
>There's probably a moral in there somewhere for anyone who fancies
>themselves as calendar reformers in the mould of Julius Caesar and Pope
>Gregory XIII :-)
>
>David Harper
I wa not interested in leading the movement. 8-) I don't even have to
use my knuckles to keep track of the days in a month.
Hugh
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