I believe her name is Elizabeth Achelis, and I recall reading her books and a journal which she (and others) produced -- in the '50's, as I recall. Now that you mention it, I, too have heard nothing about it for many years. As I recall, one major objection was the introduction of a break in the sequence of week-days once a year, twice in leap years. I don't think there was much serious consideration of the project in such places as the UN or the US Government at the time. John
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Cordasco, Anthony (NJ Data Services) wrote: > 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 > > >
