Very poor reporting/ understanding.
And all the media I regularly read had the same error.
They do not celebrate New Year on January 13th. According to the Julian calendar, they celebrate on January 1st, as do many others around the world who did not switch to the Gregorian calendar.
It was a major issue at the time because many things were calculated on a quarterly basis but wages for the poor were often daily so 'losing' 11 days was major financial burden.
People who were paid daily didn't lose a thing. There were no days where they went without pay. It is people who did things *annually* that would have lost out, had the Calendar Act 1750 not explicitly made provision for them not to, as it did.
The funny part is that December 25th #JulianCalendar isn't January 6th #GregorianCalendar any more. Those islanders are living in the 19th century. It moved onto the 7th when 1900 wasn't a Gregorian leap year.
Ken Banks didn't fact check.
They lost if they had to pay quarterly or monthly rent 11 days earlier. With 11 days less daily pay.
It caused a lot of hardship.
No. It did not work like that. The Act made provision for rents and debts, and people had the same number of days as they would have had the calendar not changed. The "give us our 11 days" people rioting thing is a total myth. It never actually happened; because the Act by design ensured that these inequities did not happen. There's a major part of it devoted to that. The idea of popular unrest was false political campaign propaganda by the Tories.
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