Was that the adjustment to align the julian and gregorian calendars??? Cos it happened a lot later in the UK than everywhere else - like 200 years or so and was finally done in April I vaguely recollect from history lessons.
It’s a major plot point in Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. So it stuck in my little pink mind more than might otherwise have done. Stunning book that - self-delusion on steroids.
Yes! If enough of us insist that it’s Friday, it WILL be Friday!
Maybe we should all take tomorrow off.
I think I’m unwell enough to do that.
I don’t believe we’ve ever skipped a day Sunday to Monday, but October 1582 really went by quick:
Was that the adjustment to align the julian and gregorian calendars??? Cos it happened a lot later in the UK than everywhere else - like 200 years or so and was finally done in April I vaguely recollect from history lessons.
Yes. I didn’t realise the English persisted with Julian after 1582, though.
I just looked it up: England skipped 11 days in September 1752.
It’s a major plot point in Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. So it stuck in my little pink mind more than might otherwise have done. Stunning book that - self-delusion on steroids.
Viva le Fridayucion!
Please don’t wish my Thursday away. It’s my day off. I have lots to do. Thanks 😊