David Harper <devnull@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 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
I can't imagine calendar manufacturers being that upset by
a different calendar. Most people use their calendars for
appointments and other notes every year and will still
need a new one each year. Day planners will still need
new inserts every year. I'll still want new choo-choo
train pitchers on my Union Pacific RR calendar each year.
It's been rumored that other cor****ations are quite in
favor of a change, so I doubt the calendar manufacturers
can outpoint them if the desire for change is really
there. Inertia, tradition, etc. is a more likely
explanation for failure to adopt a better calendar. Of
course, conversion is not a trivial matter.
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