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From: "roland elliott" <>
Subject: Re: Dates&time
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 19:37:07 -0800


If you make me king I will give you 13 months [Roland would be the 8th
month] each with 28 days,then we would all know what a day of the week a #
was,ex. 1st would always be Monday,5th Friday and so forth,and I would
implement a 24 hour clock based GMT,therefore everybody on the planet will
know the time and day/date.R
-----Original Message-----
From: <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 19 25
Subject: Re: Dates

>In a message dated 98-11-04 21:24:06 EST, you write:
>
><< In older Quaker listings, the dates are somewhat different. How do we
make
> this correction? Would someone please explain the system used by the
early
> Quakers, and how it differed. Which month did they call the first month,
>>
>
>First Month is January, and has been since 1752 when England and its
colonies
>adopted the current calendar. Previously, First Month was March, although
the
>new year didn't actually start until March 20. Other than what they called
>the months and days, however, Quakers used the same calendar as everyone
else.
>
>You can still see vestiges of the old calendar in the names of the months.
>For instance...October is, like octopus and octagon, based on the Greek
word
>"octo" for eight. That's because, while it is now the tenth month, it was
>once the eighth. Similarly, September (septum / seventh), November (novum
/
>ninth), December (decem / tenth).
>
>Hope I haven't thoroughly confused you.
>
>Mark E. Dixon
>Wayne, PA
>
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