Re: Comet calendar

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From: John Roberts
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 04:18

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-From: flb@flb.optiplan.fi ("F.Baube x554")
-Subject: Comet => Millennial Madness ?
-Date: 27 Oct 92 12:16:49 GMT

-Let's not be too Euro-centric here.

-Does anyone know whether Wednesday 14 August 2126 
-corresponds to any nice, round number in any *other* 
-calendar systems ?

-I'm thinking, something like 31 Urgtember 4999.

If I recall my 10th-grade history class correctly, sometime around the time
of the French Revolution, France was experimenting with a weird "metric"
calendar (probably ten months per year). The only month I ever heard the
name of was "Thermidor"(sp?), around July or August. Apparently it didn't
catch on.

Perhaps some of the French readers of sci.space could comment.

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov

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