Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🍹🪭Thursday, November 21, 2024

• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe we should all take tomorrow off.

  I think I’m unwell enough to do that.

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• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t believe we’ve ever skipped a day Sunday to Monday, but October 1582 really went by quick:
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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Was that the adjustment to align the julian and gregorian calendars??? Cos it happened a lot later in the UK than everywhere else - like 200 years or so and was finally done in April I vaguely recollect from history lessons.

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    • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. I didn’t realise the English persisted with Julian after 1582, though.
      I just looked it up: England skipped 11 days in September 1752.

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      • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a major plot point in Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. So it stuck in my little pink mind more than might otherwise have done. Stunning book that - self-delusion on steroids.

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• danwritesbooks@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Viva le Fridayucion!

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• Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please don’t wish my Thursday away. It’s my day off. I have lots to do. Thanks 😊

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