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[Henry Kingman]

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> From: Christian 

> I don't think it was all that long before M&D's time that the calendar
> was officially changed and the public demanded the return of their
> missing days.
> 

This would have been the switch from Julian to Gregorian calendars, which I
am guessing was the 13th century? Twelfth? The church wishing to ween the
pagans from Moon goddess worship broke the year into 12 months, thus
killing the lunar month. Also, days became measured from midnight to
midnight rather than from noon to noon, a transition that supposedly took
place on April 1. Hence, that year you could tell someone to meet you on
the morning of March 31, and they'd get up to find that there was no such
time! April Fools! (The first one!). This according to a half-remembered SF
Chronicle article of some years back... (why do these pikers bother to chip
in...?)