treeve
Major Contributor
We (maybe not all) have been through the debacle that was Y2K. Pundits and Idiots galore crept out of the hardware. The fact that somehow they had all miscounted seemed to have evaded everyone. Fact is there never was a 0AD. 1BC, straight to 1AD, mate. Then the count up to the millennium. Excuse me, when DOES the millennium actually begin? Oh, you mean it begins in 2001 - but on 31st December anyway - not that we know the actual date of birth!! The year in which He was born would not have been noted for centuries as either 1BC or 1AD in any case. Not 2000? Oh, strewth. I thought all computers would flake out? It has to be impossible for time counters to pass 2000. Doesn't it? All over the world, bated breath, with massive TV coverage. In the end, the expected (by myself) embarrassed business experts and computer experts, as they saw that one computer had failed in the Japanese Railway as a result of a burnt out fuse or something like that. The final actual millennium passed unannounced and without any event at all.
Imagine, though the 4th October 1582, throughout Europe.
The Calendar was wrong. It had to be re-set.
The Calendar is vital to society, it gives society and engineering synchronisation. Nothing works without it anymore, meetings events birthdays. Imagine the chaos today if we had to endure more than the occasional atomic clock correction that we experience now.
People then thought it was Papish plot to steal ten days from the people.
It was bad enough then, with riots from those expecting wages, or work schedules to be completed, the Church explaining why Holy Days or Saint's Days were missing and so no intercession, and the explaining that plants and crops did not stop growing, and so on....
It did not stop there .... once again 11 days were wiped from the calendar - one day 2nd September 1752, next day 14th September 1752
Wonder of wonders as well; now the year began 1st January instead of 25th March. Introducing major changes to legalities, marriage, birth and death certicates; in fact it must have been chaos.
Just translate that into present day terms with our endless computers and accounting, massive business concerns and transport timetables .. air, train and bus ... the mind boggles completely.
Think yourself lucky, very lucky we rely on the atomic clock ... but, after all that we are still not 'spot on' with Atomic Time and Solar Time,
at least it is only a few seconds ... for now ..... ::6:
Imagine, though the 4th October 1582, throughout Europe.
The Calendar was wrong. It had to be re-set.
The Calendar is vital to society, it gives society and engineering synchronisation. Nothing works without it anymore, meetings events birthdays. Imagine the chaos today if we had to endure more than the occasional atomic clock correction that we experience now.
People then thought it was Papish plot to steal ten days from the people.
It was bad enough then, with riots from those expecting wages, or work schedules to be completed, the Church explaining why Holy Days or Saint's Days were missing and so no intercession, and the explaining that plants and crops did not stop growing, and so on....
It did not stop there .... once again 11 days were wiped from the calendar - one day 2nd September 1752, next day 14th September 1752
Wonder of wonders as well; now the year began 1st January instead of 25th March. Introducing major changes to legalities, marriage, birth and death certicates; in fact it must have been chaos.
Just translate that into present day terms with our endless computers and accounting, massive business concerns and transport timetables .. air, train and bus ... the mind boggles completely.
Think yourself lucky, very lucky we rely on the atomic clock ... but, after all that we are still not 'spot on' with Atomic Time and Solar Time,
at least it is only a few seconds ... for now ..... ::6:
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