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Dooogs Jul 2022 8:56pm, 27 Jul 2022 8,950 posts	Quote Pin Dooogs Former England captains Taint, Biffin and Barse also likely to be affected...
RooA Jul 2022 9:14pm, 27 Jul 2022 1,915 posts	Quote Pin RooA In Britain, the year 1752 was only 354 days long. The 3rd to the 13th of September were missed.
Night-owl Jul 2022 9:48pm, 27 Jul 2022 39,995 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl Mountain goats apparent love human urine (and sweat) huffpost.com Thanks Sandi Tosvig and QI
swittle Jul 2022 10:20pm, 27 Jul 2022 89,106 posts	Quote Pin swittle In Britain, the year 1752 was only 354 days long. The 3rd to the 13th of September were missed. Talk of 'Calendar riots' lacks evidence but the switch from the Old Style - Julian - to New Style - Gregorian calendar must have played havoc with birthdays, and accounts, to name but two.
JK chameleon Jul 2022 10:45pm, 27 Jul 2022 16,786 posts	Quote Pin JK chameleon I know it was nearly 230 years before I was born, but for some reason this still irks me, losing my birthday!
RooA Jul 2022 10:49pm, 27 Jul 2022 1,916 posts	Quote Pin RooA It is part of the reason our tax year starts on April 6th. It used to be March 25th. It shifted another day before we eventually aligned our calender properly with everyone else...
JRitchie Jul 2022 10:56pm, 27 Jul 2022 3,259 posts	Quote Pin JRitchie Recto/Verso is another way of saying double sided print. A-La, my client sent a hard copy of a signed form to the Luxembourg tax office from the US to be stamped but it was rejected because the form was not recto/verso. I also learned at the same time the the Lux tax authorities are a**seholes.
GlennR Jul 2022 10:57pm, 27 Jul 2022 64,592 posts	Quote Pin GlennR We were quite quick about it. Russia didn't change until after the revolution and the church still counts on the old calendar there.
Fields Jul 2022 11:02pm, 27 Jul 2022 5,726 posts	Quote Pin Fields [I believe the 4 quarter days (lady day and the others) are still used for commercial property rents?]
macca 53 Jul 2022 11:21pm, 27 Jul 2022 30,227 posts	Quote Pin macca 53 It is part of the reason our tax year starts on April 6th. It used to be March 25th. It shifted another day before we eventually aligned our calender properly with everyone else... I had always thought that the original end of the tax year was the spring equinox (March 21). You learn something every day in here…