accounting period

[John Dablin]

On 19/08/10 12:54, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
>
> Whoever came up with 6th April?
>

It's something like this... Until about the 18th century the calendar 
year was often deemed to start on Lady Day, 25th March (this can cause 
confusion for historians, which year did someone mean when they wrote a 
date between January and March?). When Britain changed from the Julian 
to the Gregorian calendar in 17-something we "lost" 11 days, so the 
anniversary of March 25th that year became April 5th. I think some other 
complication involving leap years meant that it later became April 6th.

Like bureaucrats everywhere, the Revenue were having none of this 
new-fangled nonsense and stuck to the original dates, even if they do 
have to call it 6th April when talking to the rest of us!

John Dablin