A few days ago i re-watched Les Visiteurs (1993) and there was a scene where one of the characters (french nobleman from the XII century) was examining the 1992 calendar.
How the user of Julian calendar, i.e. Godefroy from the Visiteurs, perceived the date of 1123 AD - was it 1123 years from the birth of Christ for him?
Let's say he examined the 1992 AD calendar (considering that he understand hindu-arabic numbers) - how difficult it might be for him the basic transition from Julian to Gregorian calendar (aside from shifting certain dates on -5 to +15 days) to realize that he traveled for ~870 years in the future?
Edit: i believe that i made it all a little bit easier to read.
I don't know that he would even recognize the calendar shift, unless he noticed the extra day in February of 1992. Our time traveler would be slightly confused that the year began in January, rather than at Easter, but several conventions for when to start the year were already extant. He would not recognize the system of numbering days, as he would have still used the Roman system of the Kalends, Ides, and Nones. He would also not immediately recognize the current way we lay out the calendar (his would be much more like this). But other than this, yes, the calendar functioned in the same way as ours, and it was identical as far as years went.
