> The new calendar was adopted in some European countries where 4 Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct 1582 thereby skipping 10 days in between. However, it took as

> The new calendar was adopted in some European countries where 4 Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct 1582 thereby skipping 10 days in between. However, it took as long as September 1752 for the new calendar to be adopted by Britain. In Great Britain and the British Empire, 2 Sep 1752 was followed by 14 Sep 1752 and that is the gap of 11 days we see in the cal 9 1752 output. This is also the reason that some Christian groups celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7 rather than Dec. 25: > “Christmas on Jan. 7 is also known as Old Christmas Day. Eleven days were dropped (from the Gregorian calendar) to make up for the calendar discrepancy that accumulated with the Julian calendar when England and Scotland switched in 1752,” Fr. Sammour explained. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1999461/middle-east https://www.arabnews.com/node/1999461/middle-east