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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jan 24, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 4.

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From Old to New Style.—

It is said that Russia has at last consented to come into line with other nations in the matter of uniformity of calendar. In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII. revised the Julian Calendar, whose slightly erroneous calculation had at that date accumulated an error of ten days, and October 5 was counted as October 15. Russia and Greece, being under the influence of the Greek Church, refused to accept the new Gregorian Calendar, and have ever since maintained the Julian, or Old Style, method of computation. At the present time the difference between the two calendars is thirteen days, and is the cause of considerable confusion in business relations between Russia and the other nations.