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>According to a book I read about calenders ("Der Kalender im Wandel der Zeiten"), the reason many countries didn't adopt the Gregorian Calendar initially stemmed from a mistrust against the Catholic Church.
This would not surprise me. In the States we move the clock an hour in the spring to allow more "daylight" hours - Daylight Savings Time - adopted all over the U.S. except in parts of the very conservative state of Indiana where some legislators were sure it was some kind of Communist plot < s >
(the same legislature once proposed a law making pi = to 3.0 in order to make math easier for students )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
