[USMA:17027] RE: Alternative Calendar

[Bill Potts]

The least disruptive proposal I've seen for that has four quarters, consisting of months of 30, 30 and 31 days each.   The proposal had a special, undated "World Day," for the 365th day, with a "Leap Day" making up the 366 in leap years.   World Day and Leap Day would be unique (i.e., would not have one of the usual seven names). So every date would fall on the same day of the week, every year.   The trouble with the 13-month system is that it affects more birthdays and other anniversaries and is out of sync with four naturally-occurring events -- the two solstices and the two equinoxes.   None of this would affect SI, of course. The second would remain the only purely SI unit of time.   Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Price Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 08:27 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:17020] Alternative Calendar 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?