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Re: Merry Christmas!
« on: December 25, 2013, 04:57:58 AM »
11 days were removed in 1752 (in the British world).  The Julian calendar has the last year of every century as a leap year, the Gregorian calendar fixes that by making the last year of a century a leap year only if it's divisible by 400.  The difference between Julian and Gregorian has increased to 13 because of 1800 and 1900...

Hence Julian 25/12/13 is Gregorian 7/1/14. Since the world uses Gregorian, Julian (Orthodox) Christmas occurs on 7 January 2014

Quote from: Iggy;755222
"Its +13 days"

Still trying to figure out if that is 13 ahead or behind.

Suggested bounty - A VOX sentence parser, something that breaks down and translates VOX's posts into intelligible English.

BTW - Happy Birthday young man.
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