8 Sep
2021
8 Sep
'21
4:24 p.m.
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF <coff(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
The funniest transition was done by Sweden, though. They decided to
transition over a period of forty years, by skipping leap days. They
dropped the leap day in 1700, then forgot to do it in 1704 and 1708,
gave up and went back to the Julian calendar in 1711, and stayed with
that until 1753, when February 17th was followed by March 1st.
It's even more funny than that :-) They actually went back to the Julian
calendar in 1712, and they needed to add back the leap day they skipped in
1700; this extra day became February 30th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#February_30
Tony.
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