To Bob and everyone
If we ever think of alternative calendar, then this
will be the one satisfying metric way.
10 months:
5 months of 37 days = 185
5 months of 36 days = 180
---
Total = 365
---
The 37 day months will be alternative months like
this.
Month # : Days
0 : 37
1 : 36
2 : 37
3 : 36
4 : 37
5 : 36
6 : 37
7 : 36
8 : 37
9 : 36
Ofcourse once in 4 years, 1 month which has got 36
days will have 37 days. This way we also get half
yearly.
Instead if we use 13 months, then we cannot get half
year and quarter year.
Madan
--- Bob Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Bob Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [USMA:17020] Alternative Calendar
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:27:15 -0600
> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 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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