Hello Carole, It does seem strange, doesn't it? As you say, if you do not know the exact date use Dec. Of course, who ever wrote the program may have got it wrong? This is Nick Blackhurst signing off in Stardate 1999.4.26 At 07:24 PM 4/25/99 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Nick, > >Thanks for your response. I thought of that, too, so I thought that the >year should change in March--not July. It just makes no sense to me. >Also, I thought that maybe the date would change on the monarach's >accession date, but it didn't change then either. It changes >arbitrarily, it seems to me, in July!!! > >So, what it seems to boil down to is that, if you do not have a >day/month and only the Regnal year and your date is before 1752, then >you should use a december month in order to get the correct date! Does >that make sense? > >Carole >ps: I hope people have stopped fooling around with changing our >calendar! If we go to a Startrek calendar, I think I'll just have to >scream!! :)) >____________ Nicolas Blackhurst, in Chester (The Roman Fortress of Deva), England nicolas.blackhurst@virgin.net Web Site: http://freespace.virgin.net/nicolas.blackhurst/homepage.htm