Eastern Orthodox calendar: -14? - 13?

[Nathan Longan]

The divisible by 400 rule is right.  Pope Gregory had an easier job that it
might have been convincing people to change in 1582 because the extra day
per century (besides the ten added in 1582) wouldn't kick in for 118 years.


Imagine the trauma of going to bed on October 4, 1582 and waking up on
October 15, 1582.   Ben Franklin was pretty peeved when the British empire
decided that September 2, 1752 would be followed by September 14, 1752.  See
Daniel Boorstin's book The Discoverers for a very good discussion.  Also
check out the "Revized Julian Calendar" article in wikipedia.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar for a mind boggling
variation.

Or, just be grateful that at least once in a while Rome celebrates Pascha
with the Orthodox, as happens this year.
nathan longan

On 2/26/07, Gerald J. Sabo <gsabo at jcu.edu> wrote:
>
> I think if the first year of the "century" is divisible by 400, then
> another day is NOT added.  This is what I once heard, but have no printed
> reference for this.  However, in recently "googling" Russian Orthodox
> calendar I reached the website with calendar for the Holy Trinity monastery
> in New York which gave the Gregorian and Julian dates, and there was still
> simply a thirteen day difference for years in 2000--Jerry Sabo.
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:08:48 -0500
> >From: Helen Halva <hhalva at MINDSPRING.COM>
> >Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Eastern Orthodox calendar: -14? - 13?
> >To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> >
> >It's not that clear cut, one day per century.  It has to do with the
> >difference between the Gregorian and Julian calendars and the exact
> number
> >of hours and minutes by which they differ as time passes.  Unfortunately
> I
> >don't have a crisp technical explanation at my fingertips, but probably
> an
> >online search of "Gregorian calendar" and "Julian calendar" will bring
> some
> >good information.
> >
> >
> >
> >At 11:12 PM 2/25/2007 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Dear colleagues:
> >>
> >>Once upon a time, studying Russian history, I learned (or seem to recall
> >>learning) that in the 19th century the Eastern Orthodox calendar ran
> >>12 days behind the West European (Catholic) calendar, and that in the
> >>20th century the E Orthodox calendar ran 13 days behind.  So far, so
> good.
> >>
> >>So my expectation was that in the 21st century the E Orthodox calendar
> >>would run 14 (fourteen) days behind.  But I've encountered some
> indications
> >>that even in this 21st century the "time lag" is still 13 (thirteen)
> days.
> >>
> >>If I was wrong, where did I go wrong?
> >>
> >>Gratefully,
> >>Steven P Hill,
> >>University of Illinois.
> >>__ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___
> >>
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Nathan Longan, PhD
Resident Director
CIEE Study Center
St. Petersburg, Russia

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