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The problem would be solved if, when showing that "split" calendar, which dates are Julian, which dates are Gregorian. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 18:55, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
-- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 18:55, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
::: Except, it's not really "two calendars". It's "two classes of calendar standards". Another way of looking at this is that each country has a calendar and at some point they changed standards. So, if you look at this geographically for any single day during the transition periods (or, even now), you have discontinuities because of partial adoption of the Gregorian calendar. Alternatively, if you look at this as a stretch of time at one specific location you have discontinuity because at one point in time the Julian standard was used and at a later time the Gregorian standard was used (there's an exception here, for institutions which never adopted the Gregorian standard -- and of course that means that the calendar has drifted from having much of anything to do with the usual meaning in the context of seasons).
::: Your point, I think, is that you can take the Gregorian calendar and project it backwards -- assigning dates to events which took place before the calendar was invented. And, from this point of view, the dating system is self consistent. But it achieves this by assigning dates to events that have nothing to do with any dates which would have been expressed at the time represented by those dates. And, yes, this point of view is internally self-consistent. But that internal self consistency does not mean that people talking about historical calendar gaps are incorrect. It's more like nit-picking. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 14:34, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
:It's true that some of these discontinuities can be interpreted as being an artifact of the transition from Julian calendar to Gregorian calendar, but that doesn't eliminate the discontinuities, it only labels them. (And, also, we can legitimately say that all days before its adoption are "missing" from it.)
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