1752

See this calender of the month September from year 1752...

September 1752

S M Tu W Th F S
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

If you are in Unix try this out: At command prompt of any Unix ($), type: cal 9 1752 Surprised???? )
See the explanation for what you see.
Isn't the output queer?

A month with whole eleven days less?

This was the time England shifted from Roman Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar,

and the king of England ordered those 11 days to be wiped off the face of the month of September of 1752.

(What couldn't a King do in those days?!)

And yes, the workers worked for 11 days less, but got paid for the entire 30 days.

And that's how "Paid Leave" was born.