dear John, yes the 2 calendars were the Gregorian and the Orthodox, supported by religious differences.
Given the difference increases a day every century (not every 4 centuries), before 1900 probably the politicians were worried to find money to lengthen it of a day :-) ciao Fabio Fabio Savian Inviato da Tablet Samsung. -------- Messaggio originale -------- Da: John Pickard <john.pick...@bigpond.com> Data: 22/08/2016 02:07 (GMT+02:00) A: "fabio.savian" <fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it>, sundial@uni-koeln.de Oggetto: Re: smiling sundials & bridge Good morning Fabio, What a lovely story about the bridge! Obviously different regimes on either side of the bridge who could not agree on which day of the week it is. Was the difference caused by the change from Julian to Gregorian calendars? This is the sort of thing that could easily happen today here in Australia where we are infested by small-minded politicians jealous of “state rights”. As an example, all of New South Wales uses Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) and Australian Eastern Summer Time (AEDT) except a small area around Broken Hill which is on Australian Central Standard Time (ACST). There are historical reasons for this, but given that AEST is used further west in both Queensland and Victoria, we have a nice anomaly. Will it change? Probably not, although there is no longer any good reason to continue with what is obviously silly. One (social) problem is that towns like Broken Hill like to be “different” just to be different! Cheers, John John Pickard john.pick...@bigpond.com From: fabio.savian Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:22 PM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: smiling sundials & bridge I've just open a path, 'smiling sundials', on Sundial Atlas to collect this kind of sundials (www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?sp=197), it contains 3 sundials, if you have others to report, they are welcome. In front to one of them, LT4 in Kaunas, Lithuania there is a bridge on the river Nemunas with a curious story (photos in LT4). During the XIX century it was believed the longest in the world, 13 days were needed to cross it. It depends by the two different calendars adopted in the discricts of the two sides :-) ciao Fabio Fabio Savian Inviato da Tablet Samsung.
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