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By : Suryanarayan Murthy, Asst Vice President (Corporate Finance), A Hydro Power Project
Industry : Publishing Functional Area : Open Source
Activity:  14 comments  283 views  last activity : 10 07 2011 18:03:28 +0000
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Did you know the days/dates between 2nd and 14th September in 1752 did NOT exist?

This is because this was the year that the calendar changed from the Julian (Julius Caesar) to the Gregorian (Pope Gregory XIII) calendar and because the Julian calendar did not have leap years, they had to cut out dates to make the years correct for the new calendar.

So the days went 1, 2, 14, 15, 16....30. But the month still ended with 30.

So people worked for 11 days less but got paid for 30 days. This is how paid leave started.

England was the last country to adopt this system.

 

 

source: www.interestingfacts.org

 
14 comments on "Mystery of Missing Dates "
  Commented by  manish kumar, SEO | Web-cms Developer | FreeTips-- shoot me an email | Mobile SEO, SEO | Web-cms Developer | Do more than Just !    | 10 07 2011 18:03:28 +0000
lovely info sir:)
  Commented by  Dr. Ashutosh Karnatak, Executive Director (Projects)    | 10 01 2011 13:40:05 +0000
Good piece of information ;pl keep on updating.
  Commented by  Dr.G.S.Rama Rao, Freelancer    | 09 30 2011 18:19:40 +0000
Interesting!?!?!!!
  Commented by  Srinivas suravajhala, Asst. Manager.    | 09 29 2011 10:35:16 +0000
Murty Sir, looking for your upcoming post.
  Commented by  Suryanarayan Murthy, Asst Vice President (Corporate Finance), A Hydro Power Project    | 09 29 2011 09:33:40 +0000
Laxman ji, About India (1)Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days. (2)	The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.

I will be shortly posting an article on this..
  Commented by  LAXMAN KESHWALA, Freelancer, Telecom/ISP    | 09 29 2011 09:14:23 +0000
We are called educated and well educated but using that calender which is not scientifically true<?>It was prepared by any father of church for king.While Check our Indian calender it is fully science base and astronomical perfect.We are under impression of western culture who is 1000 year back in astrology.Our government also uses  english date year...very pity for India have lost every side of ownership.
  Commented by  Namrata Chauhan, IT recruiter, Pinaki Consultant    | 09 29 2011 08:48:15 +0000
As usual it's amazing murthy sir 
  Commented by  S. Muralidharan, Head, Project Planning/Strategy, Knowledge Foundation    | 09 29 2011 01:42:51 +0000
Great insight sir,  thanks very much for sharing!
  Commented by  KARTHIK P.S., Software Developer, Rass Bio-Solution    | 09 28 2011 13:32:32 +0000
really interesting sir... Thanks for sharing.
  Commented by  Virag Shah, Confidential    | 09 28 2011 12:52:18 +0000
Sir, its really nice information. Keep sharing such interesting information. Thanks for referal.
  Commented by  Sanjay Bhardwaj, Partner/Principal/VP, Health Management Solution    | 09 28 2011 12:35:34 +0000
sounds amazing, never knew the fact !!! thanks for enlighting
  Commented by  ujjval jain, Retail, Retail    | 09 28 2011 11:59:05 +0000
....but i liked the most--"This is how paid leave started"---to never end!!
  Commented by  ujjval jain, Retail, Retail    | 09 28 2011 11:57:20 +0000
..really quite interesting....some days missing....ending on the 30th....people paid for all 30 days....it seems just like--GO-DO--just ending differently!
  Commented by  Srinivas suravajhala, Asst. Manager.    | 09 28 2011 10:22:55 +0000
Oh. Quite interesting sir.  Thanks for sharing
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