Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🍹🪭Thursday, November 21, 2024
Nath@aussie.zone 2 days agoI don’t believe we’ve ever skipped a day Sunday to Monday, but October 1582 really went by quick:
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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🍹🪭Thursday, November 21, 2024
Nath@aussie.zone 2 days agoI 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 2 days 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.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 day 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.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 day 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.