At 10:50 13-02-00 +0100, you wrote:
However, the Swedish government wasy busy with various wars/etc, and forgot
about this, so
in 1704 and 1708 the leap days weren't skipped. In 1712 we were
still one day ahead of the Julian calendar, so we decided to go back
to the Julian calendar by adding TWO leap days to Febr 1712: thus, in
Sweden in 1712, February had 30 days! From 1712 we remained on the
Julian calendar until 1753, when we finally switched to the Gregorian
calendar by skipping the last 11 days of February.

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Pheww!!

Glad I wasn't alive then and born on Feb 30th

James

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