On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:28 PM ais523 via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 22:11 -0700, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > On Apr 3, 2020, at 6:33 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-official < > > > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > > At agora-official, this fourth day of April in the Year of our > > > Gregorian Calendar two thousand and twenty. > > > > I keep forgetting to tell you how much I appreciate the phrase "in > > the Year of our Gregorian Calendar." It's quite clever. > > I demand a pedantic correction to "in the Year of our Proleptic > Gregorian Calendar". The Gregorian calendar has an epoch dating from > before it started, which is just confusing if you're counting years. > > Interestingly, leap years seem to have been regularised right around > the epoch. Sources conflict as to whether 4 was a leap year or not > (under the Julian calendar in use at the time), but generally agree > that there were no Julian-calendar leap years before then, and that AD > 8 and all multiples of 4 thereafter, until the Gregorian calendar was > introduced, were leap years. (The need for multiple-of-4 leap years was > recognised several years earlier, but previous experiments with the > calendar had accidentally introduced too many leap years, so the > calendar ran without leap years for several years to compensate.) A correction will be forthcoming shortly. -Aris > >
