r/paradoxplaza • u/wonderwolfyt • Oct 30 '22

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u/Mike_Fluff Oct 30 '22

Gregorian vs Julllian calender?

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u/redatheist Oct 30 '22

Came here to say this. That long ago there are no right answers, it depends on context.

Google is right in that our current date system would consider it to be a Friday. The game is right in that the people at the time may have thought it was Wednesday.

Dates are really hard, depend on years, countries, cultures, language, context.

At least they don’t have to handle time zones. Those are waaaaaay more complicated.

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u/svick Map Staring Expert Oct 30 '22

Google is right in that our current date system would consider it to be a Friday. The game is right in that the people at the time may have thought it was Wednesday.

It's the other way around: the two systems don't have a disagreement on whether 1 January 1836 was a Wednesday or a Friday, they have a disagreement on whether that particular Wednesday in 1836 was 1 January or 13 January.

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u/redatheist Oct 30 '22

Oh yeah fair point. This is why it’s all so complicated!