2-14 September 1752 dosen't exists!?

[acidcj]

What happened if you were born on one of the days in between? :ohdear:

[PonceDeLeon]

Oh don't worry OP has a troll avatar and he is clearly trolling. = no worries

[Klownox]

[QUOTE=The Slayer;24012094]Clever bastard![/QUOTE]

He used Wikipedia, I'm fairly sure.

[ZekeTwo]

[QUOTE=Moofy;24011864]Its days..[/QUOTE]

Well obviously it isn't

[Col. Buggernuts]

[QUOTE=Klownox;24026151]He used Wikipedia, I'm fairly sure.[/QUOTE]Funnily enough, it wasn't that. I happened to be watching an episode of QI at the time where they mentioned the missing days, reminded me of that little interesting tidbit one of my teachers mentioned. I did check Wikipedia afterwards to see if I remembered correctly, hence the correction I made.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1BWlEu7zXY&feature=related[/url]
That's the 2nd part to the episode, watch from beginning to around 2:05

[johnnyIERB]

Wow, you learn something new every day.

[OMGWorms]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;24011930]In the British Empire and all it's related holdings at the time, on the 1st January 1752 they decided to make the switch from the Julian calender to the Gregorian calender, to take effect on 2nd September. That required the days between 2 and 14 be essentially deleted as the Julian calender was, by that time, inaccurate by 11 days.[/QUOTE]

Thanks.

[Nurdock]

I remember reading about this a while back, before the QI episode.