Mar 1, 2008

Time Riots!

Yesterday, the Times had a column about the long history of trying to keep calendars accurate with leap years and such:
By the time Britain adopted the [Gregorian] calendar, in 1752, 11 days had to be eliminated, and many people were enraged at the loss. “Time rioters” took to the streets of London and other cities chanting, “Give us back our 11 days!”

1 Comments:

Blogger Kevin Moore said...

you'd think they'd be too tired to riot from losing all that sleep.

10:05 PM  

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