Want a New Calendar
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2011/12/30 07:38:10
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Want a new calendar? Not just any calendar, but a Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar.
Your birthday would fall on the same day of the week every year. No need to guess. Sound good? Or does the predictability bore you?
The new Permanent Calendar makes February a 30-day month. Christmas would always fall on a Sunday. Making the calendar predictable would save hundreds of billions of dollars in scheduling and interest payment mistakes.
We've had the Gregorian calendar since 1582. Time to change?
Each year, Jan. 1 falls on a different day of the week, and the entire following year shifts accordingly. Schools, sports teams, businesses and banks spend many hours and millions of dollars calculating on what day of the week certain dates will fall, to schedule holidays and set interest rates.
It doesn't need to be that complicated, say an astrophysicist and applied economist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. They have a proposal to make schedules simpler: a permanent calendar in which each 12-month period is exactly as the year before, on into perpetuity. By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Your birthday would fall on the same day of the week every year. No need to guess. Sound good? Or does the predictability bore you?
The new Permanent Calendar makes February a 30-day month. Christmas would always fall on a Sunday. Making the calendar predictable would save hundreds of billions of dollars in scheduling and interest payment mistakes.
We've had the Gregorian calendar since 1582. Time to change?
Frankly, I'd be happy if they just divorced holidays from specific dates and used them to make long weekends.
We know, for example, that Jesus wasn't born on 12/25. So, why not just make Christmas the 3rd Friday of December? The only holiday I can think of that couldn't work that way is New Years day.
No, independence day doesn't have to be on the 4th of July as far as I'm concerned.
"The extra days created by the Earth's inconvenient 365.242-day orbit around the sun would be dealt with not by adding Feb. 29 for leap years, but by a leap week tacked onto the calendar at the end of December every five to six years."