[USMA:17020] Alternative Calendar

[Bob Price]

Since we are about to begin a new year I thought that I would bring up the subject of alternative calendars.  I hope that I am not straying too far off topic.  I realize that we will never have a "metric" calendar, but I always wondered if we could have the next best thing:  a calendar in which there are 13 months.  12 months would have exactly four weeks, 28 days.  The final month would have 29 days, 30 on leap years.  In doing this, the day of the month is the same for every month of they year.  In accounting everything would come out more evenly because all but the last period are equal.  No more worrying about using a calendar month or a 13 period accounting system, you would only use the 13 month system.  Perhaps one drawback would be another month end cycle each year. We could carry this another step further by excluding that final day(and leap days) from any week.  In doing this we eliminate that yearly drift of what day of the week a date falls. Any thoughts?