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...  ;-)

Marcus


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