Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime
sukhmel@programming.dev 1 year agoI 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
Comment on xkcd #2867: DateTime
sukhmel@programming.dev 1 year agoI 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
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…
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