Any More?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:37:30PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Actually, the Julian calendar would have been, as it was in use from
> 45 BC* until the Gregorian calendar was implemented, which occurred
> at different times in different countries.

The Julian calendar was used, but it defines the length of months and
leap years.  It does not define what year it is.

> *I guess back in those days, when you got a new calendar, the year
> number decremented from the previous.  ;-)

Yeah, they had fully predicted the future. :)

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Len Sorensen
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