Re: When was Gregorian calendar right?

On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:53:03 +0100, "Mike Dworetsky"
<platinum198@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Of course we also have a ***ulative error in the sense that the actual 
>period length of a tropical year is 365.2422 days (to 4 decimals) so the 
>Gregorian calendar itself will gradually need some reforms; a leap year
will 
>have to be omitted, perhaps the year 4000.  I imagine the Catholic Church

>will give thought to this in about 1700 years or so. (Could be an 
>interesting SciFi story theme?).  The error ac***ulated is about 1 day
every 
>3300 years rather than 4000 years, so in the very far future a further 
>reform might be needed.

The Orthodox churches already havre an adjustment in place.

http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/node3.html#SECTION00322000000000000000

So in 2800, there will be a difference between them and the Gregorian
calendar.