Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 23, 2025

I apologize for stealing Jimmy’s thunder yesterday. One point he omitted was that for some reason the English New Year’s Day had been March 25th. When they moved it to January 1st it then made the birth dates up to March 25th a year younger.

Feb. 11, 1731 (OS) = “Old Style”.

Julian Calendar trivia.

Did not know that. Thanks, JJ

That’s Britain and its Empire. The Act of Union was passed in 1707.

(More or less. You can sort out the old style/new style dates for yourself.)

But definitely Britain, not just England.

Time for a new, digital calendar, with backlighting!

But what about leap seconds?

That’s interesting!

Back when I used to compute sentences for Federal Inmate releases, we used a Julian type calendar. It was much easier to do it “by hand” and then we would double check it by computer. Supposedly prevented early or late releases.

There were also riots in London. Workers argued they’d been cheated out of wages. Chanted, “Give us back our eleven days!” (It didn’t take much to spark a riot back then.)

William Shakespeare and Don Miguel de Cervantes both died on April 23, 1616 – ten days apart.

This is interesting. It illustrates the illusion we are in charge. I was born on that one day, My birthday doesn’t change when you map it to our artificial calendar. Call it Septober, Octember, Nowonder, or Dismember, on a specific day I was born. The is no BC, AD, CE, or BCE, only creation (Big Bang, if you wish) and now.

At least George was born!

I guess we’re going for a history class now instead of funny.

Here’s another bit of time trivia. Unix (Linux, etc) use a single number to count seconds since 12:00am, GMT 1/1/1970 – the so-called epoch. So all Unix-based computers are on the same time. When a human wants to see the time or date, it uses an algorithm to convert. And that algorithm can be anything: Julian, Gregorian, Chinese, Hebrew, Klingon(?), etc, accounting for leap years, leap seconds, whatever the algorithm wants!So have it YOUR way when George was born. :→

Is that picture supposed to be George Washington?

…and people today think changing their clocks by an hour is bad

Rather change a whole day, or days, than the disruption of forward or backward by an hour.

Learn something new every day

good heavens, the current calender was used starting in the 1500’s so guessing technology was REALLY slow

At my age, it’s fun to learn something new every day and then remember ehat i just learned!! Hahaha