Comments on: New Year Question http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/22/new-year-question/ Chris Brooke's Weblog Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:38:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 by: Mark Holland http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/22/new-year-question/#comment-236 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:30:11 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/22/new-year-question/#comment-236 Whoops, nothing to contribute save to say I landed on your other NY post from personal Google (RSS) and made my previous comment without having seen this. Now I look a wally. Whoops, nothing to contribute save to say I landed on your other NY post from personal Google (RSS) and made my previous comment without having seen this. Now I look a wally.

]]> by: DC http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/22/new-year-question/#comment-234 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:58:07 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/22/new-year-question/#comment-234 Maybe French Republican Jews will, but Jewish French Republicans won't, if you get me. Which isn't guarenteed. Maybe French Republican Jews will, but Jewish French Republicans won’t, if you get me. Which isn’t guarenteed.

]]> by: chris.brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/22/new-year-question/#comment-233 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:57:35 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/22/new-year-question/#comment-233 It's a bit sad to be contributing the first comment to my own blogpost, but I can tell anyone who's interested that the next time Rosh Hashana and the French New Year coincide will be on 22 September 2017, though then the FNY will begin while RH is already underway, whereas this time it's the other way around. And the last time it happened was 1998. NOTE TO PEDANTS: this is of course the mathematical version of the French calendar rather than the astronomical version. Nothing I write is ever about the astronomical version. It’s a bit sad to be contributing the first comment to my own blogpost, but I can tell anyone who’s interested that the next time Rosh Hashana and the French New Year coincide will be on 22 September 2017, though then the FNY will begin while RH is already underway, whereas this time it’s the other way around.

And the last time it happened was 1998.

NOTE TO PEDANTS: this is of course the mathematical version of the French calendar rather than the astronomical version. Nothing I write is ever about the astronomical version.

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