Hi all,
I'm new to this list (in fact, to any list at all) but I have
certainly enjoyed the threads on UTC, the 11 Days, The Abram's Sun Compass
(I think I have one put away somewhere) and the EoT. Besides reading this
mail, how does one manage the barrage of information? I've put excerpts
from the most pertinent to my interests into Word documents, but it's
beginning to overwhelm me. Is any one archiving and indexeing this stuff?
Now for a tangent from the "11 Days thread." What ever happened to
the World Calendar Reform? The World Calendar was proposed in the 1930's or
before, and taken up at the League of Nations. I also understand it was
considered in the early days of the United Nations. 1950, which began on a
Sunday, was a target date for its adoption.
The reform proposed a Calendar of 12 months, the first month of each
quarter having 31 days, the other two having 30 days. This makes all
quarters of equal length and takes up 364 days. An intercalary day, "Year
End Day," is added at the end of the year to make it up to 365. This day
belongs to no week and has no day-of-week designation so that every year
begins on a Sunday (or whatever day is appropriate for the year in which it
might be adopted). "Leap Day" follows June 30 every 4 years, etc. and also
belongs to no week. Holidays, birthdays, would fall on the same day of the
week each year, and school calendars, etc., could be the same year after
year unless there were good reasons to change them.
It always seemed like a good idea to me. (It would also put leap day
in a more convenient place on the analemma!) I understand that through the L
of N, or the UN, approval was obtained from many nations and most of the
world religious bodies. Anyone know what happened to the idea and the
movement behind it?
Bill Walton
