[Info-vax] Why is starting epoch 17 Nov 1858?

[Dave Froble]

On 3/11/2021 9:39 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <s2d7va$1g5b$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Tom Wade
> <nospam at void.blackhole.mx> writes:
>
>>> If it were up to me, I would have used whatever date the Gregorian
>>> calendar first went into effect somewhere, so that earlier dates, in
>>> fact all valid Gregorian calendar dates, could be represented. But, of
>>> course, it wasn't up to me.
>>>
>>> (somewhere = some Catholic country/ies, probably Italy. The Protestant
>>> countries were quite reluctant to implement such popery at first.)
>>
>> It may seem quaint that a sensible measuring reform could generate the
>> kind of hysterical opposition that the Gregorian Calendar did,
>> particularly in Britain. They held out for 170 years against what was
>> perceived as a foreign attempt to foist something alien on them.
>
> Which is why they still use imperial units instead of the metric system.
>
>> The same irrational not-invented-here resistance can be seen today in
>> the US by those opposing the adoption of the Metric System, despite the
>> fact that is far more logical and easier to use.
>
> The USA is even more recalcitrant here.
>

Why is it that you are right and we're wrong?

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