Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help

On 18 Jan 2025 14:00:26 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

 
For your
information, at that time, Britain possessed only a part of north
America. So when the British colonies switched to Gregorian calendar,
most of the Americas were already using it.
 

It is all a consequence of the Protestant-Catholic split.

France was a Catholic nation and was forced by the popes to adopt
the GC.

Britain, however, was Protestant and tended to reject Catholic
ideas.

So I don't need your fucking information.  I am only concerned
with the reason Unix/Linux/GNU has chosen 1752 for its default.



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