Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:49:41PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> Similarly, the traditional British new year is on March the 25th(Date of
> conception of Christ, assuming he was born on the 25th of December).  As
> such, the British tax year starts on April the 6th(March 25th Julian).
Actually, these days March 25th Julian = April 7th Gregorian.
On the other hand, when calendar changed in 1752, March 25th Julian
was equivalent to April 5th.

If the British tax year starts on April 6th, and that date was chosen
because of the Julian calendar, it's odd that the correspondence with
the old new year was only true from 1800 (almost 50 years after the calendar
change) through 1899.  Maybe they originally planned on keeping it
in synch with the Julian year, so changed it from the 5th to the 6th in
1800, then decided it wasn't worth it?

-Mark

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