Department of Prior Conclusions

The Ten Missing Days Claim

HAEB-1582-SKIP CLOSED BY DEFINITION CAP Rev. 12.4

Event class

HN-4, Sequence conflict

Public impact

Level 4, Civic

Issuing office

Department of Prior Conclusions

Date of event

October 1582

Date opened

March 9, 2026

Date closed

October 10, 1582

Published

August 14, 2026

Case summary

Between January and March 2026 the Department of Prior Conclusions received 4,110 claims for wages, salary, rent, interest, and statutory leave in respect of dates omitted during the transition from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.

The Department has determined that the omitted dates were discontinued rather than worked. No obligation arose.

The claims were received. They were not filed. A claim is filed in the district in which the date occurred, and the dates did not occur.

A hearing has been scheduled.

Historical anchor

The papal bull Inter gravissimas, dated February 24, 1582, directed a correction to the Julian calendar, which had accumulated an error against the solar year.

In territories that adopted the correction immediately, including the Papal States, Spain, Portugal, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Thursday, October 4, 1582 was followed by Friday, October 15, 1582. Ten dates were omitted. The sequence of days was continuous throughout. No time was lost, and no life was shortened.

Adoption was not simultaneous. Britain and its dominions adopted in 1752 and omitted eleven dates, September 3 through September 13. Later adopters omitted more, because the discrepancy continued to grow. The number of omitted dates depends on when a territory changed.

The belief that crowds rioted demanding the return of the omitted days is poorly supported. The slogan “Give us our eleven days” is known chiefly from a banner in a painting by William Hogarth concerning the British election of 1754, and little contemporary evidence of protest over the calendar change has been found.

HAEB accepts these facts under the Current Approved Past.

The continuity of days is not in dispute. The availability of dates is a separate matter and is administered separately.

Reported nonconformity

Claims received, by the number of omitted dates asserted:

1. Ten dates: 2,214 claims.
2. Eleven dates: 1,509 claims.
3. Twelve dates: 208 claims.
4. Thirteen dates: 178 claims.
5. One date: 1 claim.

Claims were submitted by individuals, three estates, two employers, and one parish records office.

The claim in category 5 asserts a single date, encloses a receipt, and is the only claim in the group supported by a document.

The Department also received 63 inquiries asking whether the claim period is still open. The claim period remains open. The Department has not identified a date on which it would close.

Jurisdiction

The Department of Prior Conclusions accepted the matter under Directive 1.2.

The Department’s jurisdiction is appellate. It reviews decisions it has already issued. No prior decision concerning the omitted dates could be located, so the Department issued one and then reviewed it.

Filing requires a district. Under the Bureau’s intake rules a claim is filed in the district in which the date occurred. The omitted dates were not assigned to a district, because district assignment follows occurrence.

Claims are therefore received by ██████████████ pending district designation. Designation is not scheduled.

The Bureau does not dispute that the claimants’ ancestors worked. The Bureau disputes that they worked on a date.

Evidence register

EV-1582-SKIP-01

The claim file. 4,110 claims.

Held in the Department’s received-and-not-filed sequence, which carries no retention schedule, because retention schedules begin on the date of filing.

EV-1582-SKIP-02

Employment records submitted in support.

Sixteen claimants submitted employer records for the days on either side of an omission. Those records are consistent and are not in dispute. They establish continuous employment. They do not establish a date.

No records were submitted for the omitted dates, and none exist.

EV-1582-SKIP-03

One receipt, bearing a date within an omitted range.

The Department has recorded the receipt as an item bearing a date that was not issued. Its authenticity has not been examined, because examination would require the date.

EV-1582-SKIP-04

Notice of hearing before the Prior Payroll Appeals Board.

4,110 notices were produced and are held for delivery. The Board has not identified a delivery date that precedes the hearing.

Sequence of Bureau activity

1. Intake

Claims were received between January 6 and March 6, 2026. The matter was opened on March 9, 2026.

2. Preliminary determination

The Department issued a determination that no obligation arose, on the ground that a discontinued date generates no entitlement.

The determination was issued before any claim was examined, in order to give the Department a decision to review.

3. Review of the determination

The Department reviewed its own determination and affirmed it.

Reviews requested: 1. Reviews completed: 1.

4. Referral of the sequence question

The question was referred to the Office of Continuity Verification, which confirmed that October 5 through October 14, 1582 are not in the approved sequence in the adopting territories and are in the approved sequence elsewhere.

Both statements were certified. Neither has been reconciled with the other, because reconciliation was not requested.

5. Convening of the Board

The Prior Payroll Appeals Board was convened to hear the claims as a group.

The Board selected October 10, 1582, on the ground that a hearing concerning omitted dates should be held on one.

6. Closure

The matter closed by definition on the hearing date.

The hearing remains scheduled.

Corrective action

HAEB completed the following:

1. Issued a determination that the omitted dates generate no obligation.
2. Reviewed the determination and affirmed it.
3. Classified the 4,110 claims as received and not filed.
4. Convened the Prior Payroll Appeals Board and scheduled a hearing.
5. Directed that further claims of this kind be answered with HAEB Form 99-X, Certification That No Form Applies.
6. Declined to designate a district.

The Bureau did not deny any claim. Denial requires filing.

Observed consequence

1. The 4,110 claims remain received. The Department’s count of open matters is 0.
2. The Prior Payroll Appeals Board has one matter on its calendar and no available date. The Board has met 0 times and carries a scheduling backlog of 4,110.
3. Nineteen claimants have become subject to Division of Biographical Integrity procedures since intake. Their claims remain scheduled.
4. Three employers have asked whether an omitted date should be credited as leave. The Bureau has advised that leave accrues on dates.

Finding

1. The days between October 4 and October 15, 1582 were continuous in the adopting territories.
2. The dates October 5 through October 14, 1582 were not issued in those territories.
3. Work performed during that interval was performed on the dates that were issued.
4. No claimant worked on a date that was not issued.
5. No wages, rent, interest, or leave accrued on a date that was not issued.
6. The claims raise no question the Department is able to reach, because the claims are not filed.
7. Items 5 and 6 are independent. Either would resolve the matter. Both have been recorded.

Disposition

CLOSED BY DEFINITION

The determination stands. The hearing remains scheduled for October 10, 1582. The claim period remains open.

Dates discontinued. Days retained

Public guidance

No action is required of the public.

Persons who believe they are owed wages, rent, interest, or leave for a date omitted during a calendar transition should not submit a claim. A claim of this kind cannot be filed and will be received.

Do not submit a duplicate claim. A duplicate establishes that the first claim exists, which is not the same as establishing that it was filed.

Employers should:

1. Pay for hours worked.
2. Use the dates that were issued.
3. Retain records for the days on either side of an omission.
4. Decline to credit an omitted date as leave, absence, or service.

If you have received a notice of hearing dated October 10, 1582, retain it. Attendance is not required, and the Bureau does not maintain a procedure for excusing it.

The ten dates were discontinued in 1582 and have not become available since. The days on which the work was done remain fully available. The Bureau has retained them.

No interview is scheduled at this time.