The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-23
Old and New style.

HOW TIE ELEVEN DAYS CAME TO BE DRoppED.
Many persons know that there is difference O,
eleven days between Old and New :style-that is
that what three hundred years ago would have
\ been the LIST Of January, is now the 12th-but how
this wns Brought about is not so generally known.
The following from the Cincinnati Commercial will
explain the matter: .:- .s ). 7@
70 bring the year round to its proper becinnine-'
sud square the difference Of time, is not clearr''
fonably they a3ed upon certain lu,1ae revolution
N connection with the seasons, and did not mind
ne ths ssaesons OF h3nrs 5 and minutes that afflicted
That imperial Roman deereed On Of t S9liHs Cesar
computations nade by an Alexandrian philosopher.
that every fourth year should consist Of 3G6 days
to make mp for the odd hours Of the other thee
years, and by his arrang, ,ment the additional day
was conferred on February, probably because X
naa the R fewest days OF any month in the year.
found to be at fault. day every fourth yaar rvas
TOO much by eleven minutes, ten seconds, snd
thne ht II, OF seeona1a small matter
The natural time fell behind the reckoninee. AID
howsEuch the difference amounted to after The
the time Of the Council of Nice in s ia1; %ban nrGm t%a
Ternh equinox fell on the 21st Of March, Pone
aregoEy IL l5sa discovered that the over-reckon-
to tea days, and brought the vernal 7eauino1 on
the uth Of March. And so the error had to be- be
that the 5b I o the sea24Scs
year should be reokoned as the 18th, and to Keep
sne year = Z" Tor the future tthe surplus being
eigateen hours, thirty-seven minutes and ten
not Be divided by sSoud no bye bye65 se
1nus Cropping the extra day three times.eyery
.our nundred years. In countries where the Pope's
Wo5o was Law this method ofreckonine waaadonfad
I1 ~ ~ 70 % regretted that it was not uniYer,
saily accepted. But the Protestants ia those dava
had as strong prejudices against the Rnan pnnt
~ tney nave now, and did not take he a,,oaet; .a
kindly. What business had tie Pnna - as;a esIEn
with the year any how? - - Ane,'no ''l
But the regulation was founded 11non so,x,a
AZ civilized countries except Russia. areat mr;1 ~
ain however, did not adopt it till 1859 and s+; ~
taans tho old style in the accounts OF her Maia.
ITeas:ey. In 1852 the difference in reci5on$yye
I Mnici. rope Gregory had discovered amounted to
ed by virtue OF which the Sd Of Sertember ~ thet
year Wss reckoned as the 18th. It is ont Of these
changes IN reckoning that what are called tha Nsrv
Style and the Old Style have arison-o difference
that We stan have to observe II we have Correspond
Treasury Of Great Britain. : 2''E 4 :. :
II 1ss however, q satisfactory reflection that the
years arc now so arranged that no further chances
VII be necessary for thousands OF wears to conc,
Inc lst OF January ofeach year win find the sun
s9ars IN their p ,ces and "on time" with SO
70 pc changed for period go distant that we nesd
1ot Dother our heads no more about it than about
Ine tneofy OF the French s1udn who assun1ea that
Iz sne ure VT come when the moon win fan into
cne ca. "a, the earth into the sun, and finally an
ar seas universe INTO one compact globe of mat
eni 81 leaving space Literally void and darkness 80
1nese years, whose duration is calculated TO tba
- t.n q second, go fast enough with the uost
y ana BRING with them all the ieyI1es ~ i;fa
Each one brings nearer to the silent Is
.o;es - s wnose mystertouH shores neither the Z
faee ol warning, nor entreaty nor love, nor anao.
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