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:: I wish the original task had stated the obvious (but didn't) that instead of "a" calender, it would've said a Gregorian calendar. Almost everyone has shown a Gregorian calender, except for those that mixed a Julian calendar with a Gregorian calendar [in a failed attempt to show the "missing days" when (whoever) switched from the Julian calendar to a Gregorian calendar]. There are no missing days. When the Gregorian calendar was implemented (wherever the locality), it was designed as being proleptic. That is, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted by a country, the previous day wasn't missing, it just was the previous day, way back to day one of year one (as if the Gregorian calendar had been in effect all the time). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 01:46, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
<br>Below is an extract from the newsgroup bit.listserv.ibm-main (unfortunately, I have lost the author and date it was posted) which addresses the 10 or 11 missing days holy war:▼
::: It was always the case that the previous day was just the previous day. Days are things that exist independent of calendars; dates and calendars are just a labeling of reality. The problems that occurred at calendar changes were virtually all actually to do with landlords (who else!) demanding a full month's rent despite the month in question being thoroughly foreshortened. ''Plus ça change…'' –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 14:54, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
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The URL still works (albeit it re-directs you to the current URL of:
== Calendar versus CALENDAR ==
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