At 18:32 +0000 on 04/12/2009, john gilmore wrote about Re: "New" TOD:
In particular, as I noted on another occasion, calendrical arihmetic
is rendered trivial when dates are stored as the signed number of
elapsed days from some epoch origin, of which the two reasonable
ones are:
or 2) midnight 31 December 0000, which is the epoch origin of the
Gregorian calendar,
The Gregorian Calendar did not start sometime from 1582 (for the
Roman Church) to 1752 (the UK and the US [American Colonies at that
point]) through 1926 (Turkey) so you have to state what country you
are talking about. The skipping of anywhere from 10 to 13 days in the
switch from the Julian Calendar also screws up dates (for example
Washington's Birthday is NOT celebrated on his actual birthday since
he was born on a Julian (OS/Old Style) date/year.
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