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September 1752

Ofcorse you guys must have already known about this...yet posting...Something peculiar regarding the year 1952...
Well the month september is 11 days short...

Suprised?? Well so were everyone when they heard about this..If you are working on Unix..At $ prompt, type: cal 9 1752

You will the above image...

The guy that originally wrote the "cal" command on some old Version 7 machine had an off-by-one error in his code. This showed up as some erroneous output when a malloc'd variable overwrote 12 extra bytes with zeroes, thus leading to the strange calendar output seen above.

This got very famous as 'Cal 9 1752' . Inquisitve by nature..i couldnt help googling the same to know more about it despite having work piled up on my desk. I managed to sum the itzy bitzy details i read through...

nobody in his right mind really cares about the calendar for September 1752. Even the *idea* of the year 1752 does not exist under UNIX, because time did not begin for UNIX until early 1970. As a result, nobody even knew that "cal" had this error until much later. By then there were thousands of copies of "cal" floating around, many of them binary-only. It was too late to fix them all.
So in mid-1975, some high-level AT&T officials met with the Pope, and came to an agreement. The calendar was retroactively changed to bring September 1752 in line with UNIX reality. Since the calendar was changed by counting *backwards* from September 14, 1752, none of the dates after that were affected. The dates before that were all moved by 12 days. They also fixed the man page for "cal" to document the bug as a feature.
The 11 days from September 3 to September 13 were simply gone from the records. They searched the history books and found that fortunately nothing of much significance happened during those 11 days.

History behind this goes like this...

In September 1752 the Julian calendar was
replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies.
The Julian calendar was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar.The king of
England ordered those 11 days to be wiped off the face of the month of September
of 1752 - so 14 September got to follow 2 September on the day of the change.
The result was that between 3 and 13 September, absolutely nothing
happened!

And yes, the workers worked for 11 days
less, but got paid for the entire 30 days. And that's how "Paid Leave" was
born.Hail the King!!!

The calendar switch also influenced the way George Washington's birthday is celebrated. He was born on 11 February 1731, but the anniversary of his birth is on 22 February because of the 11 days eliminated from the calendar switch. At the same time, New Year's Day was changed from 25 March to 1 January, thus according to the new calendar, Washington was born in 1732.

Thanks hemant for letting me know about this..

Coutesy:Google & Time nothing happened

Essence of Bhagavad Gita

Though I have always been intrested in reading Bhagavad Gita , I never had a chance to read..err chance?? uhmmm well..not exactly..infact procrastinated even though i had downloaded many articles on GITA.Somehow today i came across few verses (written below).....I personally feel it is for a person like me :) Had I read it few months before ..would have never cribbed like how i did once upon a time - My friends who have known me personally and moved around pretty closely with me would be the best to comment on this ...rather let me put it this way - I HOPE THEY DO COMMENT!!

Whatever happened was for good

Whatever is happening is for good

Whatever will happen will also be for good

What did you lose of your own that you are crying for?

What did you bring with you that you have lost ?

What did you create that has been destroyed?

Whatever you possess, you have got it from here

Whatever you gave , you gave it here

Whatever belonged to you today,belonged to somone else yesterday

And tomorrow it will belong to someone else

CHANGE IS THE RULE OF NATURE

How true!!But thats life i guess

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya