Re: Telling time (wasRe: The English/French counting system (WAS:number systems fromconlangs))
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 13:15 |
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At 06:53 AM 9/16/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Nik Taylor scripsit:
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> > Eh, losing a day every century or so is no big loss in my opinion. The
> > Gregorian calendar is far too complex for the minor advantage it has
> > over Julian, IMO. They should've stayed with Julian.
>
>The real issue was the matter of Easter. It's symbolically important
>that Easter remain a spring festival and not drift slowly into winter:
>Pope Gregory's reform was an attempt to correct an alarming trend,
>not surgery for an immediate and overwhelming problem.
Except that in the 21st century, it's still not a problem. Pascha
(Orthodox Easter) is still very much in the springtime. I believe that the
Gregorian reforms also made some slight changes to the methods used to
reckon the date of Easter.
Isidora
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