From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 31636 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2021 01:05:39 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 3 Sep 2021 01:05:39 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9FC4E9C891; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:05:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AE19C870; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:05:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id F3FF99C870; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:05:34 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 405 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:05:33 AEST Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149459BA1E for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:05:33 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (unknown [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60FD928171; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 00:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BA6082635BE; Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:58:47 +1000 (AEST) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:58:47 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Nemo Nusquam Message-ID: <20210903005847.GD60245@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20210902234058.GC60245@eureka.lemis.com> <7f5e0f44-3798-5913-a209-36ff3f9c358d@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7f5e0f44-3798-5913-a209-36ff3f9c358d@gmail.com> Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [COFF] What does your "cal" show? X-BeenThere: coff@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: coff@minnie.tuhs.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3721525708188301998==" Errors-To: coff-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "COFF" --===============3721525708188301998== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sHrvAb52M6C8blB9" Content-Disposition: inline --sHrvAb52M6C8blB9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 20:03:20 -0400, Nemo Nusquam wrote: > On 2021-09-02 19:40, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 8:10:38 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: >>> In 1752 we switched to the Gregorian calendar, with the peasants revolting >>> (as if they weren't already) because they thought they'd lost 11 days of >>> their lives. > > My understanding for the revolt -- though I cannot think of a reference > offhand -- was that landlords charged a full month's rent for the > reduced month. Hmm. I thought it was because the tax was paid in kind, and the change meant that they were due before the harvest was done. But it seems that we're all wrong: the riots probably never happened. The normal taxes weren't affected. Before the change, the tax year ended on Lady Day (25 March), but this was changed to 5 April, still the case today. And interestingly, it seems that before the change the calendar year also changed on Lady Day, so 24 March 1750 was followed by 25 March 1751. This, too, was changed. More at https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Give-us-our-eleven-days/ and of course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750 Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --sHrvAb52M6C8blB9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmExc0cACgkQIubykFB6QiOePQCfed+n5yG4jdOtS4TWxYL3Ee4S tpUAoIDt+b9c/MujO3Cbh1UGc2z3wR0C =JEzb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sHrvAb52M6C8blB9-- --===============3721525708188301998== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KQ09GRiBtYWls aW5nIGxpc3QKQ09GRkBtaW5uaWUudHVocy5vcmcKaHR0cHM6Ly9taW5uaWUudHVocy5vcmcvY2dp LWJpbi9tYWlsbWFuL2xpc3RpbmZvL2NvZmYK --===============3721525708188301998==--