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British Summer Time 2014: Why do Clocks Change?
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<blockquote data-quote="sonnetpete" data-source="post: 881266" data-attributes="member: 310216"><p>Yes, and I'm getting fed up with people ringing and asking me what the correct time is.....</p><p></p><p>I don't know about your Muslim friend's calculations. The Gregorian calendar repeats every 400 years and we have 97 leap days in that time. You can work out the exact maths but roughly if we didn't have leap days we'd have only lost 485 days in the last 2,000 years, about 18 months. The Islamic calendar is on 1435 this year.</p><p></p><p>The West changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian in 1582 so you'd have to allow for that as well but no way could we lose that much time, even allowing for the fact that this part of rural France is stuck in the late 1950's</p><p></p><p>As to leap seconds, I'll have to consult with my colleagues as soon as this phone stops ringing.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sonnetpete, post: 881266, member: 310216"] Yes, and I'm getting fed up with people ringing and asking me what the correct time is..... I don't know about your Muslim friend's calculations. The Gregorian calendar repeats every 400 years and we have 97 leap days in that time. You can work out the exact maths but roughly if we didn't have leap days we'd have only lost 485 days in the last 2,000 years, about 18 months. The Islamic calendar is on 1435 this year. The West changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian in 1582 so you'd have to allow for that as well but no way could we lose that much time, even allowing for the fact that this part of rural France is stuck in the late 1950's As to leap seconds, I'll have to consult with my colleagues as soon as this phone stops ringing..... [/QUOTE]
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