Re: [LEAPSECS] building consensus

From: Clive D.W. Feather <clive_at_DEMON.NET>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:36:15 +0100

Peter Bunclark said:
> hang on I thought the numbering start Jan=1 ... Dec=10 and got interrupted
> when Julius Caesar put an extra month in and so did Augustus...

No.

Mar = 1, Apr = 2, May = 3, Jun = 4, Quin = 5, Sext = 6, Sept = 7,
Oct = 8, Nov = 9, Dec = 10.

Quintilis was renamed July by Julius the year he was assassinated, and
Augustus renamed Sextilis after himself in 8 A.D.

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