September 1752 fact - Very Interesting

ARMANI101 15-08-2007, 12:20 AM

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Have u ever seen the calendar for September 1752???


If you are working in Unix, try this out.
At $ prompt, type: cal 9 1752
Surprised??? ?

Not only in Unix, u can also search it in google
See the explanation for what you see.

Isn't the output queer? A month with whole of eleven days missing. This was the time England shifted from Roman Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, and the king of England ordered those 11 days to be wiped off the face of the month of September of 1752. (What couldn't a King do in those days?!) And yes, the workers worked for 11 days less, but got paid for the entire 30 days. And that's how "Paid Leave" was born.Hail the King!!!

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WaqasJ

Nice info. Its good to be a King! or someone who aspires to be one, like Mushy

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Kashif

hmm...interesting. never knew this. thnx for sharing.

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Asad

Interesting. Didn't knew this before.

Would love to have permanent payed leave in professional life. No calender would then exist.

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