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

[margaret]

Gary, What a wonderful way to put it!!!
                               Pilla
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Warner" <gary at warnerengineering.com>
To: <rradke at telus.net>; "Mail List" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: September 31 ????


>I think that there is someone on this list who knows everything there is to 
>know.  That someone may not be the same person all the time, but 
>nevertheless, impressive.
>
> Gary Warner
> Gig Harbor, WA
>
>
> At 03:31 PM 1/20/2005, Robert Radke wrote:
>>This doesn't answer the original question, but perhaps some folk will be
>>interested.
>>
>>The reason that the Gregorian calendar falls one day further behind the 
>>Julian
>>calendar each century is because the Gregorian calendar omits leap years 
>>in
>>years divisible by 100, but the Julian calendar does not.  Thus, once 
>>every
>>100 years, the Julian calendar has one extra day.
>>
>>There is one exception to this rule, and it happened in recent memory.  In
>>years divisible by 400, the Gregorian calendar keeps its leap year.  So in
>>the year 2000 just past, both calendars had a leap year.  The two 
>>calendars
>>thus continue to differ by just 13 days even though we're in a new 
>>century.
>>
>>So for our Orthodox friends who have just finished celebrating Christmas
>>according to the Julian calendar, the date of Christmas didn't shift by 
>>one
>>day this century as it did at the turn of the last century.
>>
>>--Bob Radke
>>
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