Poul-Henning Kamp scripsit: > I belive this was because the year followed the taxation cycle of the > government whereas the day+month followed the religiously inherited > tradtion.
Indeed. For that matter, the start of the U.K. tax year was left alone
when the calendar changed, and is now 6 April (it should be 7 April,
but for whatever reason no adjustment for 1900 was made).
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