Calendar stuff

Halsten Aastebol Halsten.Aastebol at elkraft.ntnu.no
Wed Jan 30 10:01:52 CET 2002


At 16:59 28.01.02 +0100, Kjell Croné wrote:

>There might be some other exceptions,
>but Sweden is a really strange exception.
>
>In 1699 they decided to switch to the Gregorian calendar by removing one day
>each year.
>It started by skipping the leap day in 1700.
>But in 1701 the decision was revoked and for some years we had a calendar
>that wasn't used anywhere else in the world.
>In 1712 we switched back to the Julian calendar, by adding a day!
>So we had 30 days in February 1712.
>In 1753 we finally switched to the Gregorian calendar, after Feb. 17 came
>March 1.
>
>Many people disliked this, since the goverment had stolen 11 days of their
>lives.

Swedes! :-)

Halsten
A Norwegian




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