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  Hows a Leap Year? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-26 09:26 -0800
    Re: Hows a Leap Year? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-26 09:29 -0800
      Re: Hows a Leap Year? "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198@pants.btinternet.com> - 2016-02-27 11:09 +0000
        Re: Hows a Leap Year? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-27 08:00 -0800
          Re: Hows a Leap Year? "Mike Dworetsky" <platinum198@pants.btinternet.com> - 2016-02-27 20:32 +0000
    Re: Hows a Leap Year? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-26 09:31 -0800

#377224 — Hows a Leap Year?

Hows a Leap Year?

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#377225

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Hows a Leap Year?


 George Washington’s Birthday, which was recorded originally as Feb. 11,
was later changed to Feb. 22 because of leap year.


i don't get it.

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#377339

The Starmaker wrote:
> The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>> Hows a Leap Year?
>
>
> George Washington's Birthday, which was recorded originally as Feb.
> 11, was later changed to Feb. 22 because of leap year.
>
>
> i don't get it.

Because of ignorance.  See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

Washington was born in the British North American colonies at a time when 
Great Britain used the Julian Calendar.  The Catholic Church had reformed 
the calendar under Pope Gregory XIII to put the date of Easter back in the 
correct relationship with the Vernal Equinox.  This had drifted by 10 days 
because the length of the year was slightly incorrect.  The reform included 
removing 10 days from the year 1582.  It also made century years not 
divisible by 400 non-leap years.  Britain and its colonies did not change 
until after 1700 (in 1752) by which time the difference had accumulated to 
11 days.  It also involved changing the official start of the year to 
January 1 from March 25.  Washington was born before the change took place, 
but retrospectively such dates have been changed in histories to the current 
Gregorian calendar.

Hence  Washington's Birthday is now usually given as February 22, 1732 but 
in the Old Style it was February 11, 1731.

1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600 and 2000 were.

-- 
Mike Dworetsky

(Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply) 

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#377347

Mike Dworetsky wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > The Starmaker wrote:
> >>
> >> Hows a Leap Year?
> >
> >
> > George Washington's Birthday, which was recorded originally as Feb.
> > 11, was later changed to Feb. 22 because of leap year.
> >
> >
> > i don't get it.
> 
> Because of ignorance.  See
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
> 
> Washington was born in the British North American colonies at a time when
> Great Britain used the Julian Calendar.  The Catholic Church had reformed
> the calendar under Pope Gregory XIII to put the date of Easter back in the
> correct relationship with the Vernal Equinox.  This had drifted by 10 days
> because the length of the year was slightly incorrect.  The reform included
> removing 10 days from the year 1582.  It also made century years not
> divisible by 400 non-leap years.  Britain and its colonies did not change
> until after 1700 (in 1752) by which time the difference had accumulated to
> 11 days.  It also involved changing the official start of the year to
> January 1 from March 25.  Washington was born before the change took place,
> but retrospectively such dates have been changed in histories to the current
> Gregorian calendar.
> 
> Hence  Washington's Birthday is now usually given as February 22, 1732 but
> in the Old Style it was February 11, 1731.
> 
> 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600 and 2000 were.
> 
> --
> Mike Dworetsky
> 
> (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)


so is George Washington an Aquarius or a Pisces?


I mean...anybody born today on February 22, would be thought of being a
Pisces, but they are really born
on February 11, which would make them an Aquarius, right? I'm sooo mixed
up...wats my sign?

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#377368

The Starmaker wrote:
> Mike Dworetsky wrote:
>>
>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hows a Leap Year?
>>>
>>>
>>> George Washington's Birthday, which was recorded originally as Feb.
>>> 11, was later changed to Feb. 22 because of leap year.
>>>
>>>
>>> i don't get it.
>>
>> Because of ignorance.  See
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
>>
>> Washington was born in the British North American colonies at a time
>> when Great Britain used the Julian Calendar.  The Catholic Church
>> had reformed the calendar under Pope Gregory XIII to put the date of
>> Easter back in the correct relationship with the Vernal Equinox.
>> This had drifted by 10 days because the length of the year was
>> slightly incorrect.  The reform included removing 10 days from the
>> year 1582.  It also made century years not divisible by 400 non-leap
>> years.  Britain and its colonies did not change until after 1700 (in
>> 1752) by which time the difference had accumulated to 11 days.  It
>> also involved changing the official start of the year to January 1
>> from March 25.  Washington was born before the change took place,
>> but retrospectively such dates have been changed in histories to the
>> current Gregorian calendar.
>>
>> Hence  Washington's Birthday is now usually given as February 22,
>> 1732 but in the Old Style it was February 11, 1731.
>>
>> 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600 and 2000 were.
>>
>> --
>> Mike Dworetsky
>>
>> (Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply)
>
>
> so is George Washington an Aquarius or a Pisces?
>
>
> I mean...anybody born today on February 22, would be thought of being
> a Pisces, but they are really born
> on February 11, which would make them an Aquarius, right? I'm sooo
> mixed up...wats my sign?

The sign of the Moron?

A "star sign" would be determined by what the sun's celestial longitude was 
on the day of birth, not the calendar date.  So definitely a Pisces.  On Feb 
11 1731, the Sun was in Pisces according to the Julian Calendar.
-- 
Mike Dworetsky

(Remove pants sp*mbl*ck to reply) 

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#377226

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Hows a Leap Year?


Is it a religious holiday??

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