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Re:Digital Equipment answers a user's complaint that the yea... by StrawberryFrog on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @09:29AM (#347391)
"By imperial decree, one year was made 445 days long to bring the calendar back in step with the seasons."

Er, is that right?

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Re:Digital Equipment answers a user's complaint that the yea... by Retric on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @09:41AM (#347400)
Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46_BC
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Re:Digital Equipment answers a user's complaint that the yea... by ComputerGuru on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @12:16PM (#347569)
Another interesting tid-bit for the comments:

The year 1582 didn't have Oct. 5th through Oct. 14th (inclusive). They just skipped from the fourth of October to the fifteenth!

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Re:Digital Equipment answers a user's complaint that the yea... by dfranke on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @05:46PM (#348077)
Which resulted in widespread violence when landlords tried to make their tenants pay a full month's rent.
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