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Hi Friends:
Whatever
went wrong during introduction of the ‘metric system’; the objective failed to
press for adoption and continuation of ‘Decimale Time scale’, which
lasted for a mere 13 years. Attempts of
The World Calendar Association, New York (USA) for adopting the International Fixed Calendar by Moses Burines Cotsworth and the
discussions that followed at United Nations led to sine die adjournment of the Calendar Question (1956 April 26); till
a better and promising proposal came before the World body that could remove the
discrepancies in Gregorian calendar, and not cause the ‘Sabbath’ cycle to rotate
when year/month/week cycles change.
Disparity
in Calendars is a known fact - especially in attempting to
find the possibility of a global Dating system for documentation of events and
international trade. In this connection, implementation of International
Standard ISO: 8601-1988 on Descending Order Dating can be the starting point and
leading to yyyy - ww - dd / hr-md-sd format
for date writing.
THE LEAP
WEEK RULE:
An 896-year span shall have 327257.01010776 days, to account 159 ‘leap weeks’.
All years shall have 52 weeks, OTHER THAN THOSE YEARS DIVISIBLE BY SIX (6),
which shall have an added 53rd week as the leap week of the year. In addition,
only TEN (10) inter-calary leap weeks need be included at a frequency of every
90-years - the first three (3) years later (i.e. during 93rd
year) and the last three (3) years earlier (i.e. during 87th
year), if 896TH year
itself happen to be divisible by SIX (6). An accumulated ‘under accounted’
error of only ONE DAY shall creep into after a long period of 88644.6237035
years (say, 88645 years).
As
against this, the Gregorian calendar accumulates such error in about 3320
years. In 400
years, (365�400=146000 + 24x3 +1 =146097
days) are accounted. But, actual time elapsed is 365.2421987125 � 400 =146096.879485 days.
This, over accounts 0.120515 day in 400 years or 1 day in 3319.0889001
years.
Does it make sense and lead the calendar towards ‘ZERO ERROR’?
Healthy criticism/views are welcome!
BRIJ
BHUSHAN VIJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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