Everett M. Greene wrote:
> Eagle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(J. Hugh Sullivan) writes:
>
>> Why not a calendar of 12, 30 day months with 5 world days and a sixth
>> every 4 years? That would certainly save our knuckles and between from
>> being counting boards for the months.
>
> Such a calendar has been proposed but with 30-31-30 days
> repeated four times with an extra day at the end of the
> year. Another extra day can be added at the end of the
> second quarter for leap years.
That's one version of what is called the World Calendar.
Each quarter has 91 days, which is exactly 13 weeks, and each quarter
begins on a Sunday.
Neither Year End Day nor Leap Year Day are assigned a day of the week,
so apart from those extra days, each day in the year always falls on the
same day of the week.
This means that you never need to remember what day of the week March
10th is going to fall on, because it will always be a Friday.
This idea is, unsurprisingly, deeply unpopular among the manufacturers
of diaries and calendars, who have waged a vigorous and -- to date --
very successful campaign to prevent the World Calendar from being adopted.
David Harper ;-)
Cambridge, England
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