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Don't tell the aliens about the missing 12 days in 1752: https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2019/03/16/your-story-why-did-11-days-disappea

Don't tell the aliens about the missing 12 days in 1752: https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2019/03/16/your-story-why-did-11-days-disappear-in-1752/5695611007/ https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/lifestyle/columns/201...

Archelaos 4y ago
This was harmless compared to the Swedish calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar
crote 4y ago
Not to mention that quite a few countries are also missing those 12 days, but in completely different years. Greece did so in 1923, for example.
- masklinn 4y ago
  And iirc at least one country decided that was too simple, decided to gradually shift, then reverted, then did it in one go.
  - pezezin 4y ago
    Another user mentioned that it was Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar
dave4420 4y ago
Or the 11 missing days in 1582. I mean, programmers love to bitch about time zones, but that’s nothing compared to the stink we’d have raised if we’d been coding in a time when the date depended on which country you were in.
- kevinpet 4y ago
  It might actually have been easier. Our current time system is regular enough that you can get away with skipping many irregularities (leap year is pretty much the one that matters). If you were forced to regularly deal with time conversions, you would just accept that different people have different times and you just need to convert.
- int_19h 4y ago
  This is still the case, since timezone differences affect day boundaries.
  - dave4420 4y ago
    Not to the same extent. Sure it can be Wednesday 28th in Paris while it’s still Tuesday 27th in London… but then it will be Wednesday 28th in London soon. That’s really not the same thing as it being Wednesday 28th in Paris while it’s Wednesday 17th in London. When the 28th rolls round in London, it won’t be a Wednesday…
dathinab 4y ago
It's not just days, there is a whole time period of a bunch of years where its not fully clear if they did exist or where skipped. I just forgot when.
- ghosty141 4y ago
  This is sadly more of an urban legend. There recently was an article about this which also disproved this theory quite well, best seen in other civilizations that have no connection to the european one.
Joeri 4y ago
Or the missing day in samoa in 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377

Archelaos 4y ago

This was harmless compared to the Swedish calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar

crote 4y ago

Not to mention that quite a few countries are also missing those 12 days, but in completely different years. Greece did so in 1923, for example.

masklinn 4y ago
And iirc at least one country decided that was too simple, decided to gradually shift, then reverted, then did it in one go.
- pezezin 4y ago
  Another user mentioned that it was Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar

dave4420 4y ago

Or the 11 missing days in 1582. I mean, programmers love to bitch about time zones, but that’s nothing compared to the stink we’d have raised if we’d been coding in a time when the date depended on which country you were in.

kevinpet 4y ago
It might actually have been easier. Our current time system is regular enough that you can get away with skipping many irregularities (leap year is pretty much the one that matters). If you were forced to regularly deal with time conversions, you would just accept that different people have different times and you just need to convert.
int_19h 4y ago
This is still the case, since timezone differences affect day boundaries.
- dave4420 4y ago
  Not to the same extent. Sure it can be Wednesday 28th in Paris while it’s still Tuesday 27th in London… but then it will be Wednesday 28th in London soon. That’s really not the same thing as it being Wednesday 28th in Paris while it’s Wednesday 17th in London. When the 28th rolls round in London, it won’t be a Wednesday…

dathinab 4y ago

It's not just days, there is a whole time period of a bunch of years where its not fully clear if they did exist or where skipped. I just forgot when.

ghosty141 4y ago
This is sadly more of an urban legend. There recently was an article about this which also disproved this theory quite well, best seen in other civilizations that have no connection to the european one.

Joeri 4y ago

Or the missing day in samoa in 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377