[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] September 31 ????

[gpvjem]

        There are excellent but lengthy, detailed articles regarding calendars in the 2001 CD version of Encyclopedia Britannica complete with conversion formulae.  I am not a mathematician so I'm not about to embark on a conversion program, but here are the interval differences between the Julian and Gregorian calendars as they were recognized from 1582:

1582 - 1600  = difference of 10 days (added to Julian date)
1700 = difference of 11 days
1800 = difference of 12 days
1900 - 2000 = difference of 13 days.

    This still doesn't answer Karl's question however.

John Marsch

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  Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the 13 days difference 
  was in effect after 1900.  Prior to that most double dates in the records 
  were 12 days apart.

  Rose Ingram


  From: "Karl Krueger" Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 7:03 AM

  > Does anyone know if the some groups using the old Julian calendar or some 
  > other time employed a September 31 day?
  >
  > I have translated a course of life my grandfather wrote and in being very 
  > specific to some dates he also gives the days of the week. Therefore I 
  > could tell the dates he was using were according to the Julian calendar - 
  > 13 days off from our (Gregorian) calendar. But at one point he is quite 
  > definite on specific dates and days of the week but I find he is off by 
  > one day in this set of paragraphs. I wondered if by chance some people 
  > used 30 days in August and 31 days in September as this would explain it, 
  > however, my limited research online did not indicate such usage.
  >
  > Now I just translated for someone something that was handwritten back in 
  > this same period as when my grandfather's story occurred. This person 
  > seems to indicate a birthdate of Sep. 31, 1894. Since this is now the 
  > second case in favor of a Sep 31 possibility I wonder if anyone else can 
  > shed light on this - or do we have two different people making mistakes.
  >
  >
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