It it now a leap year?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:02:57 -0400
"Matthew J. Roth" <mroth at imminc.com> wrote:

> This makes for a good bit of trivia.
> 
> Q. What month has 19 days in it?
> A. September 1752

Not good trivia as for most of the planet the answer is not September
1752 but one of numerous other dates their country applied the correction
- a politicially hairy process since people who paid rent monthly were
very angry, employers who paid monthly were furious, and many people who
thought that it was genuinely removing 19 days of their life went
ballistic.