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Depends on your calendar! Presidential proclamations are signed and dated in two calendars, "the year of our Lord", and "the year of the Independence of the Un
by saalweachter 4y ago
Depends on your calendar!
Presidential proclamations are signed and dated in two calendars, "the year of our Lord", and "the year of the Independence of the United States of America":
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-sixth.
The former uses January 1st as the start of each new year; the latter, July 4th.
In England, Lady Day (March 25th) was the turnover of a new year, for about 6 centuries.
- dahfizz 4y ago"Falsehoods programmers believe about X" articles inevitably become a discussion about niche anthropology facts. No programmer has ever cared about Lady Day when writing a program. And if they did, by definition, they would understand it's significance.
- saalweachter 4y agoThe point of these "falsehoods" threads is that programmers may not care about these niche anthropology facts, but users may care a lot. It's not crazy to think that a user may, say, want to create a database of historical records, like when people were born, married or buried. Now I want to find out the age people were when married... suddenly, the existence of Lady Day and the time and place the dates were recorded become very important.