Re: Day & month names
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 2, 2000, 6:21 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> It would be very confusing, I think, to use the same
> set of names for months in two different calendar systems. AFAIK the
> practical Chinese just numbered the western months.
Oh, so when they refer to dates in the traditional lunisolar calendar,
they used named months, but when referring to dates in the Gregorian
calendar, they use numbered months?
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