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Thoughts?
Yeah, wouldn't that be unlucky?
Dunc
-----Original Message-----
From:
Bob Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
December 31, 2001 11:42
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?
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