On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:32:41 Joseph B. Reid wrote: >Allow me to add my support to Bill Potts' calendar proposal in USMA 21668: > >>There is one calendar reform (which has nothing to do with SI) that would >>make the current system somewhat more rational. (And, yes, we've discussed >>it here before.) >> >>That's the one with 30-, 30- and 31-day months in each quarter, with an >>unnumbered World Day (or some such) to make up the 365, plus an unnumbered >>Leap Day (probably between the new February 30 and March 1, to satisfy >>tradition) every four years. World Day would possibly be between December 31 >>and January 1. > > >The unnumbered days would be preceded by a Saturday and followed by a >Sunday. Religious fundamentalists, such as Marcus Berger, would object >that this would upset the divinely ordained seven-day cycle. Perhaps >special religious services could be held on these unnumbered days to ask >divine forgiveness for this sin. >... Veeeery funny... Tongue in cheek though, as long as there would still be 7 days in a week I couldn't care less... ;-)
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