Dates and calendars in Potterverse

[leaverish]

No: HPFGUIDX 97566

Tammy wrote: 
> How do you expect to reconcile literary astronomical 
> indicators to real world dates when, for five years 
> now, September first has been a Sunday?  Doesn't that 
> just scream out that JKR is not using a real world 
> calendar?  


Sorry, maybe I'm missing something, and this must have been said 
before, but how can there be a question regarding the real date of 
the happenings in the books? We have explicit info on this.
In CoS nearly headless Nick has his 500th death day, and we're told 
he was killed in 1492. Ergo, CoS happens in 1992.

Leaverish