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It's after 1 pm on July 2nd, so we're now in the second half of 2026.
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On 7/2/26 13:00, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

It's after 1 pm on July 2nd, so we're now in the second half of 2026.

Only if you're in the Eastern US Timezone (DST).
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On 7/2/26 13:07, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/2/26 13:00, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

It's after 1 pm on July 2nd, so we're now in the second half of 2026.

Only if you're in the Eastern US Timezone (DST).

Sorry--or farther east.

(I was on a Zoom call two days ago with people in Israel, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey, Arizona, and California. It was late enough that
the person in Israel was wishing the person in Arizona a happy July 1
birthday before it was July 1 in Arizona. To complicate it, the birthday
boy was actually born in Chicago.)
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Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

It's after 1 pm on July 2nd, so we're now in the second half of 2026.

Only if you're in the Eastern US Timezone (DST).

True. Or if you're east of it.
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On 7/2/26 1:10 PM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/2/26 13:07, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/2/26 13:00, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

It's after 1 pm on July 2nd, so we're now in the second half of 2026.

Only if you're in the Eastern US Timezone (DST).

Sorry--or farther east.

(I was on a Zoom call two days ago with people in Israel, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey, Arizona, and California. It was late enough that
the person in Israel was wishing the person in Arizona a happy July 1 birthday before it was July 1 in Arizona. To complicate it, the birthday
boy was actually born in Chicago.)

At least we don't have an 11-day time adjustment to deal with. George Washington was born on February 11, but after the calendar shift, it was observed on February 22. (Today, it always falls on a weekend and is
called President's, Presidents', or Presidents Day.) Isaac Newton, on
the other hand, was born December 25 old style, and it's celebrated at
least as often on that day as on January 4.
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In article <1126paj$2gnhg$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

On 7/2/26 1:10 PM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/2/26 13:07, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/2/26 13:00, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

It's after 1 pm on July 2nd, so we're now in the second half of 2026.

Only if you're in the Eastern US Timezone (DST).

Sorry--or farther east.

(I was on a Zoom call two days ago with people in Israel, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey, Arizona, and California. It was late enough that
the person in Israel was wishing the person in Arizona a happy July 1
birthday before it was July 1 in Arizona. To complicate it, the birthday
boy was actually born in Chicago.)

At least we don't have an 11-day time adjustment to deal with. George >Washington was born on February 11, but after the calendar shift, it was >observed on February 22. (Today, it always falls on a weekend and is
called President's, Presidents', or Presidents Day.) Isaac Newton, on
the other hand, was born December 25 old style, and it's celebrated at
least as often on that day as on January 4.

[Hal Heydt]
And the Russian October Revolution (of 1917) is celebrated in
November for the same reason. (The Russian Empire never
converted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. The Soviet
Union converted.) The last country I know of to convert calendars
was Greece in 1923. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church converted in
2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russian
Orthodox Church is still running on the Julian calendar.
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Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

At least we don't have an 11-day time adjustment to deal with.
George Washington was born on February 11, but after the calendar
shift, it was observed on February 22.

True.

(Today, it always falls on a weekend and is called President's,
Presidents', or Presidents Day.)

False. There was a proposal to change the holiday to some variant
of that name, but it failed. The federal holiday is Washington's
Birthday, and always has been. The Virginia state holiday is
Washington's Birthday, and always has been. (I suppose it's possible
that the proposal passed in some states, changing the name of their
state holiday. But I think it's only "Presidents Day" in the deranged imagination of advertisers.)

This makes sense, because it was never a celebration of Washington's *presidency*. There have been lots of presidents, but only one
without whom there never would have been a USA in the first place.

In short, it's a celebration of his generalship. And of his kingship
-- or rather the lack of same, even though some wanted to make him
King George I of America. And had he wanted to accept that crown,
nobody could have stopped him.

Thankfully, by now there's enough of a precedent that there's not much
risk of a King Donald I, no matter how much he wants to turn the White
House into an uninspired cross between Versailles and Graceland and
proclaim himself ruler for life.

My brother an I both plan to stay far away from his city on the
Fourth, even though the city is surprisingly still named for the first president, not for the current one. Even though I hear that as of
this week, the current one is wealthier than all past US presidents
put together. Though I'm not sure whether that accounts sufficiently
for inflation.
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Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

At least we don't have an 11-day time adjustment to deal with. George >>Washington was born on February 11, but after the calendar shift, it was >>observed on February 22. (Today, it always falls on a weekend and is >>called President's, Presidents', or Presidents Day.) Isaac Newton, on
the other hand, was born December 25 old style, and it's celebrated at >>least as often on that day as on January 4.

And as Hal points, out the Orthodox churches continue to celebrate
Christmas on that date. I think this is excellent because it gives
you two opportunities to eat giant Christmas dinners and twice as much
cake.
--scott
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On 7/2/26 8:04 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

At least we don't have an 11-day time adjustment to deal with. George
Washington was born on February 11, but after the calendar shift, it was >>> observed on February 22. (Today, it always falls on a weekend and is
called President's, Presidents', or Presidents Day.) Isaac Newton, on
the other hand, was born December 25 old style, and it's celebrated at
least as often on that day as on January 4.

And as Hal points, out the Orthodox churches continue to celebrate
Christmas on that date. I think this is excellent because it gives
you two opportunities to eat giant Christmas dinners and twice as much
cake.

Greek Orthodox Easter is also often different from the more widely used
date, but for a different reason. The Orthodox Church holds that Easter
has to be after Passover, because the Gospels say Jesus was crucified
after Passover. This may or may not make a difference in any given year.

However, Greeks in the US celebrate Christmas on December 25.
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On 7/2/26 18:39, Gary McGath wrote:

On 7/2/26 1:10 PM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/2/26 13:07, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 7/2/26 13:00, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

It's after 1 pm on July 2nd, so we're now in the second half of 2026.

Only if you're in the Eastern US Timezone (DST).

Sorry--or farther east.

(I was on a Zoom call two days ago with people in Israel,
Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Arizona, and California. It was
late enough that the person in Israel was wishing the person in
Arizona a happy July 1 birthday before it was July 1 in Arizona. To
complicate it, the birthday boy was actually born in Chicago.)

At least we don't have an 11-day time adjustment to deal with. George Washington was born on February 11, but after the calendar shift, it was observed on February 22. (Today, it always falls on a weekend and is
called President's, Presidents', or Presidents Day.) Isaac Newton, on
the other hand, was born December 25 old style, and it's celebrated at
least as often on that day as on January 4.

No, Presidents Day always falls on a Monday.

As for Newton, Timons Esaias's poem "Newton's Mass" clearly attaches it
to December 25.
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On 7/2/26 19:46, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

False. There was a proposal to change the holiday to some variant
of that name, but it failed. The federal holiday is Washington's
Birthday, and always has been. The Virginia state holiday is
Washington's Birthday, and always has been. (I suppose it's possible
that the proposal passed in some states, changing the name of their
state holiday. But I think it's only "Presidents Day" in the deranged imagination of advertisers.)

Actually, I think it has become Presidents Day in a lot of places
(either formally or informally) because it seemed to absorb Lincoln's Birthday, which had been fairly widely celebrated (well, in the North, anyway).
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