Ah, if only Pope Gregory was still around. One stroke of the pen and we'd ALL be metricated...
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:06 AM Subject: [USMA:21671] Re: calendar reform Dear John, You argue this issue very well. I have interspersed some remarks. on 2002-08-12 04.54, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2002-08-11 > > I think that the controversy with the calendar has a lot to do with how it > is to be set up. The year as amended by Pope Gregory XIII (the Gregorian calendar): 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 20 seconds Date Pope Gregory reformed the calendar: 1582 Length of time the Julian calendar overestimates the solar year per year, as determined by Pope Gregory: 11 minutes, 14 seconds Number of days Pope Gregory removed to correct the calendar's drift: 10 Dates Gregory eliminated by papal bull to realign his calendar with the solar year: 5-14 October 1582 Dates most Catholic countries accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1582-1584 Date Protestant Germany accepted the Gregorian calendar: partial acceptance in 1700, full acceptance in 1775 Date Great Britain (and the American colonies) accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1752 Length of time eliminated by the British Parliament to realign the old calendar (Julian) with the Gregorian calendar: 11 days Dates Parliament eliminated: 3-13 September 1752 Date Japan accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1873 Date Russia accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1917 (and again in 1940) Date China accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1949 Date the Eastern Orthodox Church last voted to reject the Gregorian calendar and retain the Julian calendar: 1971 Length of time the Gregorian calendar is off from the true solar year: 25.96768 seconds per year Length of time the Gregorian calendar has become misaligned over the 414 years since Gregory's reform in 1582: 2 hours, 59 minutes, 12 seconds Year in which the Gregorian calendar will be one day ahead of the true solar year: AD 4909 Year that Atomic Time replaced Earth Time as the world's official time standard: 1972 The year as measured in oscillations of atomic cesium: 290 091 200 500 000 000
