Re: of a year, years, and half a year (was Re: (none))

[conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill)]

In article <10804@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond) writes:
>In article <2020@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>>Lots of calendars work the same way.
>>The first decade of the present system would have been 1 to 10.
>
>True.  And the 175th decade was 1741 through 1750.  But when was the
>176th decade?  What was the ending date of the 1752nd year?  How long
>is a year?

Surely the reason for the change was to ensure that the 1752nd year
actually ended on the right day.
It was the 1751st year which was wrong. The adjustment corrected
the fact, so that the 176th decade correctly finished on
December 31st 1760, but didn't start on January 1st 1751, but 11 days
out (earlier?).
(All dates refer to England, as has been pointed out by someone else)

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