James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ..
>> If I may add my sob story....I'm bugged by our calendar. Quick
>> what date is Thanksgiving this year? Different numbers of days
>> in different months, leap years, leap seconds...yikes.
>
> Whatever became of the "world calendar" (I think it was called), that
> had 91-day quarters with months of 30,30,31 days (or some other
> permutation), and one "world day" at the end-of the year, not _in_ any
> month. Leap year added a "leap day" between June and July, I believe.
>
> One observation was that regularized quarters would have business benefits.
>
> As I recall, it was suggested to make the conversion on a year where Jan
> 1 fell on a Monday (Sunday?).
>
> I think I'm remembering this from several SYO ("score years ago", tm).
>
I guess SYO SB SYA. I furgut ta preafrood.
..j
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