Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime

• sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I thought it is about when Julian calendar was dropped in favour of Gregorian, but that’s not it:

  Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 October 1582

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  • elvith@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also some of the islands around the International Date Line did switch their stance on which side of the Date Line they are. So… they might have had a day twice or lost a whole day in the process. And maybe, they didn’t change sides only once…

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A great video you linked, the missing Friday is in it on timestamp 22:45

      The Thursday 29th of December 2011 was followed by Saturday 31st of December 2011 on Samoa

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