> May I recommend David Ewart Duncan's 'The Calendar' recently published by
> 4th Estate for an interesting insight into the calculation of the year etc.
>
> Paul Murphy
I'll second that; it was a very good read.
The full title is
Calendar : Humanity's Epic
Struggle to Determine a True
and Accurate Year
by David Ewing Duncan
Here's an Amazon.com link if you want to learn more about it...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380793245/qid=942943896/sr=1-3/002-3183584-8100040
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