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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.
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>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 >
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>(the same legislature once proposed a law making pi = to 3.0 in order to make math easier for students )
Which reminds me... Assuming you call a sheep's tail a "leg", how many legs does a sheep have? (Attributed to Abraham Lincoln.)
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
