> > Weird. I tried that month/year and it's missing a few days. > > But I tried > > the previous year and the following and it worked. Strange. I'm sure > > there is a logical explanation for this? > > Yep. Adjustment of the calendar to correct for cumulative loss of a few days > from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar had > caused about 5 days slippage, and to sync them up, that month has fewer > days -- if we'd continued with the Julian calendar, December would be > sometime in the middle of summer by now...8-)
A perpetual problem in the Roman Republic, and one which Gaius Julius Caesar (the famous one; there were lots of others) attempted to fix. Before then the Romans simply added a few days whenever the relevant priest got round to it, often not often enough. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
