HOLE IN THE HISTORY, RELIVING IN FUTURE

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        Sun is rising in the east as usual with no surprise. But to the Guruji’s (Master) surprise, his Sishya ( Disciple/Student) came at the right time to the class. 

Both were sitting infront of Guru’s house.

He started the lesson of the day.

Guru :

Today I’ll tell you a story, Long long ago…

St. Teresa of Avila, one of the great philosophers and doctors of

the Roman Catholic Church died on October 4, 1582. He was 

buried the next day: October 15th!

Sishya : Guruji! I think you haven’t by-hearted the lesson 

properly, the next day is 5^th October not 15^th of October.

Guruji : Sishya, What I told you now and what you listened  is

 absolutely right. It is not 5^th, it is 15^th October of 1582.

(he had a puff of hookah and continued)

And I want to tell you one more fact which is hard to believe. 

Before that, let me ask you one thing. Which is the most favorite 

day for you in the whole year…

Sishya : Obviously, festivals, especially, Ganesh Chaturthi and 

Diwali…Lots of fun and delicious dishes…(seeing into the sky) 

haaa….haaa…aahh...

Guruji:  Idiot, come back from that stupid imagination…I am 

asking apart from festivals…they are common favorites for 

everybody. I am asking any special days for you.

Sishya : The second straight answer without any hesitation would 

be my birthday.

Guruji : This is what I expected from you. After several 

thousands of years, there will be a situation for sure when many 

people can celebrate their birthday on two days in the same year.

Sishya : Why guruji…Sounds so exciting and awesome.,

Guruji : Don’t get so excited…I said it will occur in very far 

future.

Sishya : Oh! Ok,  why the first situation has occurred and why 

your prophecy will become the truth. Please tell me if you have 

any scientific answer.

Then the Guruji, had one more puff of hookah and started saying the following lines…

         Earth takes 365.242 days to complete a revolution around 

the sun. In history, we had a great man named Julian  who had 

designed our first calendar, with the basic human instincts, 

neglected that fractional part, and considered it as only 365days. 

Later, this costed us seriously…

        After several years, again a great man named Pope Gregory 

entered into the picture and claimed that the calendar we are 

following then is full of flaws because of that small 0.242 

approximation. At that time he introduced the concept of LEAP 

YEAR, the year which has 366 days. He has considered that 

0.242 as 0.25 day by rounding it off in each year and it forms a 

day in every four year cycle. (This will be knowing by many of 

us).

            As Gregorian wanted to make some corrections to the 

existing calendar instead of designing a new system, he asked 

everybody to add 10 days immediately to the existing calendar

as correction and thus the according to that, the consequent 

actions happened.

         But note that Gregory's decree only took effect in countries that gave allegiance to him. Many Protestant states didn't go Gregorian until the 1700s, including Britain and her American colonies in September 1752. In these countries, September 2nd, 1752, is followed by September 14^th, 1752.

The story will not ends here….

it will resume by Sishya’s question…..

Sishya : Fine, the story in the history justifies up to some extent, 

what about those birthday shifts in the future….

Guruji : If you observe clearly, Gregorian made correction 

partially but not completely. . This system is relatively accurate, 

but .242 is not exactly the .250 of a day that it needs to be for the 

leap-day to work perfectly. Over the centuries the .008 of a day 

(11 minutes 30 seconds) began to accumulate. 

In future, someone would claim in the same way as Gregorian 

does. Because the Pope Gregory has rounded off we will be in a 

position in future where we have to get back to the passed dates to 

apply correction to the Gregorian Calendar also….

                          End of the story.

Additional Info :

  

Russia never did implement Pope Gregory’s amendments to the calendar. The People's Commissars did in February 1918, but the Red Army had to enforce it as the USSR was formed. And that is why the October Revolution is also known as the November Revolution. According to the tsar Julian's calendar, it was October, but in the rest of the world, and for the Commissars and Soviets, it was November.

These things seems to be so simple, but they might be resulting in 

trivial phenomena.  

Hence many Indians argue that our Indian calendarical systems 

are far superior to those western systems. That is a different 

story. For today, one story is enough.

          So, clap for the post or condemn it, whatever you feel, 

whatever your mind says...Just express it.

         A spark in your brain can create a canto in history... :) (:

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