Have u ever seen the calendar for September 1752 ?
If you are working in UNIX or Solaris, try this out.
At $ prompt, type: cal 1752
Surprised ? Yes It's the 11 day when nothing happened !!!
Do You Know WHAT happened between 3 and 13 September 1752 ?
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, 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.
Long live the King ;)
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