| Show the following Is received on tile the leap year matter salt lake city jan 2 editor tribune levith nil duo due deft lonce 11 10 s your superior of in ili generso pon gen cral erst I 1 ura beg to toko take issue with you upon cepo n tile question of the he year not being a lui year ns as stated in our paper of today vry every fourth year car ie a ti lui car for ilia iho reason that each cadi year in ili reality consists of das dai and 6 hours iut but nominally days to take up tho surplus flaunt on one 0 do day or twenty four hours houra in III added every bourth yi yar ar 1 w I here a not non fractional quotient Is obtained by dividing dix iding the yar y or by 4 the iho of leap year C can an always a yet tro fee proved but I 1 it t la Is on nn prior to ignore IffT ioro tho the ciphers in in tile number lm the ear Is id leap letty year quotient I 1 W will also tie ho loup year quotient 1 if f I 1 am mistaken lit this matter please set bet mo me right if you can lave betre bet re mis mid taken kindly favor favo r tho the public in likes manner and obil go very tru truly av youra urs anctil ANOTHER r verdu it lis L aro K our correspondent Is w arong the century years are not leap years unless they are evenly divisible by tho the year Is not exa exactly e kiy days daya and six hours it lacks ll 11 minutes of 0 it and this traction fraction makes serious trouble eventually when it la Is not taken into the account the julian ca calendar londar was formulated on tho the theory ot of our correspondent spon dent t as to tho the days precise length but iopu 0 gregory oi abory found in 1582 2 that according to the julian calendar which had been used up to that time the vernal equinox was 10 days out pf af the true reckoning so BO lie ho struck out ten flays days in october 1582 and this emendation further provided that lea leap V years year a should be omitted in the century years except those divisible by 4 without reference to tile tho ciphers the british parliament adopted the gregorian Grce orlan calendar in 1 1761 GJ eliminating 11 lays days of september the thir third A day of that thai month being made the uth this amended reckoning will kep keep the adjustments right tor for centuries and this lg is the new style as distinguished from the old style of 0 notation of 0 time often been in old books and occasionally even now when dates in russia hussla or other countries that re lain the Jul julian laii calendar aro are named tho the now between the styles Is 12 days the tribune correctly stated the rule |
