Posted on 01/01/2012 5:28:56 PM PST by Libloather
Is there an after Christmas sale on indulgences?
et tu Brute?
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.
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...
One time (UTC) makes sense. No more daylight time nonsense. No more conversions.
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).
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.
“This seems a little rushed to me.”
LoL! As an old programmer I kind of like the Julian myself.
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).
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.
This would never work. There is no October 31. Kids and others who celebrate Hallowe’en would never stand for that.
A time, times, and half a time = 3.5 yrs.
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.
The pre-Islamic Persian and Badi (Bahá’í) calendars both already start the year at the vernal equinox.
I’m shorting the stocks of calendar publishers first thing tomorrow morning.
“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.
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.
This idiocy was most likely paid for by a grant that came from our tax dollars.
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.
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