I believe it was a very wealth woman (Greek?) who was behind the movement. She wrote two books on the subject. I read them and they were very interesting. She presented quite a strong case for the calendar reform as well as giving a nice history of the calendar. Her name and the titles of the books are at home and if no one else can answer your question I will submit them to you tomorrow. Regards, Anthony
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Walton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 7:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Calendar Reform > > 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 >
