1st
April
2007
Suggest we upgrade our calendars
While going through some family tree notes earlier today, I was struck by the citation of a birth date from February 29th. I had to seek a calculator and also find the odd algorithm that decides if any given year has that date. Validity testing. It goes beyond the usual little memory aid acquired in elementary school and still not transferred to my second language. It struck me a second time. We’re due for a calendar revision, since the last major one took place about four centuries and a bit. Give or take a few years. For the interested, here is a link to Inter Gravissimas. Let’s move on now, shall we.
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