> > 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
Rob Seaman scripsit:
> References for this? Your explanation makes a lot of sense and I'm
> prepared to be convinced, but have been skeptical of experimental
> design as applied to questions of human behavior since participating
> in studies as a requirement of undergraduate psychology coursework
Tim Shepard replies:
Also hard to imagine how one gracefully transitions
from one to two sleep cycles a day.
It is already the norm in some places:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
Thanks for the chuckle. One is then left wondering whether our far
future, Clarkeian "Against the Fall
Rob Seaman wrote:
On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:03 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
In the UK in 1750, there were two different Julian calendars in
use: the
day and month enumeration matched, but year numbers changed at
different
dates (1st January in Scotland, 25th March in England and Wales).
I've hear
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 Apr
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:03 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>
>22 March 1750
>23 March 1750
>24 March 1750
>25 March 1751
>26 March 1751
>27 March 1751
>
>Right?
I belive this was because the year follow
Rob Seaman wrote:
> 23 March 1750
> 24 March 1750
> 25 March 1751
> 26 March 1751
Yes. There were several other dates used for the start of the counted
year too.
>What this suggests to me is that the day-of-the-month and year-of-our-
>Lord counts were considered to be sep
On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:03 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
In the UK in 1750, there were two different Julian calendars in
use: the
day and month enumeration matched, but year numbers changed at
different
dates (1st January in Scotland, 25th March in England and Wales).
I've heard this said, but wh
On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:01 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Actually, the evidence from experiments is that the "natural" sleep-
wake
cycle is about 27 hours long, but force-locked to the day-night
cycle (it's
easier to synchronise a longer free-running timer to a shorter
external
signal than vice-ver
John Cowan said:
> Historians aren't exactly consistent on the question. In European
> history, dates are Julian or Gregorian depending on the location;
> dates in East Asian history seem to be proleptic Gregorian.
Even worse, "Julian" can have more than one meaning.
In the UK in 1750, there wer
Rob Seaman said:
>> As I've said before, eventually the notion that the solar day contains
>> 24h of 60m of 60s will have to be abandoned. It'll be awfully hard
>> to maintain when an "hour" involves two human sleep-wake cycles,
>> out in the limit when the Moon is fully tidally locked and 1 lunar
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