Mardon <mgb72mgb@hotmail.com> wrote: >Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote: > >> Not quite, but just this week I ran across a French birth record dated >> 29 Fev in a non-leap year, which is the same problem. > >I've learned to be especially cautious about French dates between 1793 and >1806 because of The French Revolutionary Calendar. My 2nd great >grandfather was born "15 Pluviose VIII" and my 2nd great grandmother on "4 >Messidor IV". Dates like this ought to always be recorded in their >original form. If a French date between 1793 and 1806 showed Feb 29 in a >non-leap year, I'd guess it was just an error in translation of the >calendars. This was a couple of decades after the Revolution, 1829, to be specific. lojbab