Ah yes; I remember reading of this. The change of the New Year to January 1st of the Gregorian calendar took quite a bit of time to be accepted throughout the world. They would even write the year twice in Britain; one for the old style and another for the new one.
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Date: 2010-03-28 01:40 am (UTC)