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No, there are no missing days in the Gregorian calendar.
October 4th, 1582, in the Gregorian calendar is followed by October 5th in the Gregorian Calendar.
October 4th, 1582, in the Julian calendar is followed by October 15th in the Gregorian calendar.
October 4th, 1582, in the Julian calendar is followed by October 5th in the Julian calendar for those countries (and places) that didn't convert to the Gregorian calendar.
October 4th, 1582, in the Julian calendar is followed by October 5th in the Julian calendar, even though it wasn't the "legal" (in use) calendar anymore.
It's like when someone leaves San Francisco, California and flies to New York, and adjusts (or adopts) their wristwatch to local time by jumping three hours ahead. There's no missing three hours. The traveler just adopted the "time" of a different time zone.
See: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Talk:Calendar
The only "missing days" are when one switches from one calendar to another. The Gregorian calendar is proletic. October 5th follows 4 Oct in EVERY year in the Gregorian calendar (starting in January 1, year 1). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 06:18, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
October 4th in year 1582 was the date in the Julian calender (the day before the switchover in some countries). The next day, the Gregorian calendar was adopted (or put into effect) in various countries, but not everywhere. The new Gregorian calender says it was October 15th. If we switched to a Mayan calendar, would we be missing ''years'' (or whatever)? Of course not. Once the Gregorian calendar was adopted, it was like the calendar was in effect all along, with a continous calendar (proletic) backward to January 1st, year 1. No missing days. That is why there are references to ''O.S.'' (''o''ld ''s''tyle) for years previous to the adoption of the new Gregorian calendar for those people who were born before the switchover. If the Gregorian calendar wasn't proletic, there would be no need for ''O.S.'' type of dates.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington
-- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 07:02, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
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