>>>>>That's when the Western calendar system went from Julian to Gregorian, I believe. They'd need a different function for time prior to that...
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>>>>Actually, it was the other way around..
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>>>>Therefor Julian day 1 = 01/01/1752 which affects SYS(1) and SYS(11,)
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>>>Are you sure? I remember it that way since Ceasar came before Pope Gregory, so the Julian system came before Gregorian...say, this thread isn't very VFPish, is it? :~)
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>>Bruce, I'm so confused, I don't know what I remember anymore.
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>I'm not sure where Fox/MS came up with 1752, but Pope Gregory established the Gregorian calendar in 1582, replacing the Julian calendar. Skipped 10 days, to put the calendar back into synchronization with the sun. They had only 21 days in October 1582.
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>Barbara (and her encyclopedia)
I checked my Almanac last night -- you're right about 1582, but evidently the system did not get implemented until 1752 in most of Europe. At that point they skipped 12 days in September...
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