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Re: [Phys-l] Newton's birthday



Of course there was the claim that the calendar reform robbed the workers of 11 days pay -- damper on that:

There were, however, legitimate concerns about tax payments under the new calendar. Under provision 6 (Times of Payment of Rents, Annuities) of the Act, Great Britain made special provisions to make sure that monthly or yearly payments would not become due until the dates that they originally would have in the Julian calendar, or in the words of the act "[Times of Payment of Rents, Annuities] at and upon the same respective natural days and times as the same should and ought to have been payable or made or would have happened in case this Act had not been made".[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750

bc ever the political.



On 2010, Jan 04, , at 17:53, chuck britton wrote:

All calendars have a bit of fascinating arbitrariness about them.