[COFF] What does your "cal" show?

[Tony Finch]

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF <coff at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> The funniest transition was done by Sweden, though.  They decided to
> transition over a period of forty years, by skipping leap days.  They
> dropped the leap day in 1700, then forgot to do it in 1704 and 1708,
> gave up and went back to the Julian calendar in 1711, and stayed with
> that until 1753, when February 17th was followed by March 1st.

It's even more funny than that :-) They actually went back to the Julian
calendar in 1712, and they needed to add back the leap day they skipped in
1700; this extra day became February 30th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#February_30

Tony.
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