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Johns Hopkins professors propose new calendar
Washington Examiner ^ | 12/31/11

Posted on 01/01/2012 5:28:56 PM PST by Libloather

Johns Hopkins professors propose new calendar
By: The Associated Press | 12/31/11 1:02 PM

Two Johns Hopkins professors are proposing a new calendar in which dates would fall on the same days of the week every year.

The calendar proposed by Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist, and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist, begins each year on Sunday, Jan. 1.

**SNIP**

The professors, who also advocate "Universal Time" over time zones, say the new calendar would simplify planning and financial market calculations. They hope to take their proposal to the United Nations and attract worldwide interest.

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To: RaceBannon

Is there an after Christmas sale on indulgences?


41 posted on 01/01/2012 6:11:21 PM PST by BipolarBob (I don't mind you shooting at me, Frank, but take it easy on the Bacardi!)
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To: eddie willers

et tu Brute?


42 posted on 01/01/2012 6:13:35 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Libloather
Shire Reckoning for the win!


43 posted on 01/01/2012 6:13:35 PM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: omni-scientist

How about a 13 month calendar with 28 days each month except the last month of the year which would have 29. On leap year the first and last month would have 29 days.


44 posted on 01/01/2012 6:18:46 PM PST by MCF
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To: Dallas59
They hope to take their proposal to the United Nations and attract worldwide interest.

In the Sixties, someone took their case to the United Nations concerning A cure for the "Summer Time Blues", but the jury is still out on that one...

45 posted on 01/01/2012 6:19:53 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES (It's 3 AM. Let me sleep on it. I'll get back to you in 16 hours.)
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To: Libloather

One time (UTC) makes sense. No more daylight time nonsense. No more conversions.


46 posted on 01/01/2012 6:21:11 PM PST by prolusion
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To: Libloather
If they were to do this, they would need to start the year on a Friday so that there would be only one "Friday the 13th" in the year (in August).

Similar ideas have been proposed in the past. Personally, I think it's a terrible idea--I like the variety of having dates fall on different days of the week.

Pope Gregory's calendar reform was designed to get the spring equinox to fall at the same time as it did in 325, when the Council of Nicaea set the rules for calculating the date of Easter. Since so many people want to eliminate any traces of Christianity from modern society, I'm surprised no one has called for a further reform to get the date of the spring equinox back to what it was in 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar implemented his calendar reform. That would involve dropping 3 days. Since February is the coldest month, maybe drop them from February and have a February of 25 days one year (except that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would holler about days being taken from Black History Month).

47 posted on 01/01/2012 6:24:05 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Libloather

Link

Quarters are 91 days long (exactly 13 weeks), consisting of two 30-day months and a 31-day month. The resulting year is 364 days long, exactly 52 weeks. To compensate for misalignment with earth's orbit, they add an extra week at the end of December every five or six years.

48 posted on 01/01/2012 6:25:35 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: JRandomFreeper

“This seems a little rushed to me.”

LoL! As an old programmer I kind of like the Julian myself.


49 posted on 01/01/2012 6:31:28 PM PST by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: SamAdams76
Julius Caesar set it up so that February would have 29 days in a normal year and 30 in a leap year. August, then called Sextilis, had 30 days. Later, Sextilis was renamed in honor of the emperor Augustus, and he didn't want his month to have fewer days than his uncle's month, so he took a day from February to give August 31 days.

Originally the Roman year began at the beginning of March. Months were 29 or 30 days long and occasionally an extra month would be added between February and March to try to keep the calendar in line with the seasons. I guess that is why Julius Caesar had the extra day in leap years added to February (although in the Roman calendar the extra day was not February 29 but "the second sixth day before the Kalends of March," equivalent to February 25 by our count).

50 posted on 01/01/2012 6:33:20 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: MCF
You stole my idea. ;-)

But actually it might be even better to always have 13 months of 28 days each, and the other day or two would be free floating holidays.

51 posted on 01/01/2012 6:35:03 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: cynwoody

This would never work. There is no October 31. Kids and others who celebrate Hallowe’en would never stand for that.


52 posted on 01/01/2012 6:35:44 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: RaceBannon

A time, times, and half a time = 3.5 yrs.


53 posted on 01/01/2012 6:39:24 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Libloather
... the new calendar would simplify planning and financial market calculations.

So do these chumps think "planning and financial market calculations" are the only activities of importance? Far from it, I say.

In the near future, I plan to propose a new calendar that will simplify posting to Free Republic.

54 posted on 01/01/2012 6:46:11 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: xp38

The pre-Islamic Persian and Badi (Bahá’í) calendars both already start the year at the vernal equinox.


55 posted on 01/01/2012 6:48:13 PM PST by reg45 (I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
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To: Libloather

I’m shorting the stocks of calendar publishers first thing tomorrow morning.


56 posted on 01/01/2012 6:49:09 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

“This is after all the university whose medical school performed the first sex-change operations.”

Medical schools perform operations?

You are more likely referring to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the consistently #1 ranked hospital in the US. Its department that did sex changes was closed in the 70’s.

May I suggest they have saved countless lives, including my son’s, when all else failed. A friend was flown in from AZ for an operation that could not be performed anywhere else in the world. If you or a loved one had a rare life-threatening disorder, you’d suddenly be awfully glad JH is there.


57 posted on 01/01/2012 6:50:34 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Phinneous
Can anyone corroborate the foiled commie experiment?

While I can't corroborate the truth of the story, I can say that I heard it, too. So if it's a hoax, it's pretty widespread and we both got sucked into it.

58 posted on 01/01/2012 6:52:05 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: Libloather

This idiocy was most likely paid for by a grant that came from our tax dollars.


59 posted on 01/01/2012 6:59:44 PM PST by upchuck (Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
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To: Phinneous
I had heard that some or other commie nation tried to shift to a 10-day week system and failed. The reason is that we resonate on G-d’s calendar. Of course, this was the explanation in Rabbinical Seminary... Can anyone corroborate the foiled commie experiment?

The Frogs used such a calendar, the French Republican Calendar, from 1793 to 1805. The ancient Chinese and Egyptians also had 10-day weeks. The Chinese alternated the month length between 29 and 30 days to keep the month in phase with the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#Ten-day

60 posted on 01/01/2012 7:06:26 PM PST by cynwoody
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