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A one-world government could enact this. Only change I’d make would be to have all holidays occur on a Tuesday or Thursday to create four day weekends.
Forget leap years, months with 28 days and your birthday falling on a different day of the week each year. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland say they have a better way to mark time: a new calendar in which every year is identical to the one before.
Their proposed calendar overhaul — largely unprecedented in the 430 years since Pope Gregory XIII instituted the Gregorian calendar we still use today — would divvy out months and weeks so that every calendar date would always fall on the same day of the week. Christmas, for example, would forever come on a Sunday.
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What bothers him about the Gregorian calendar, though, is the frustrating tendency for days of the week to jump around. Because 365 is not a multiple of seven, 7-day weeks don’t fit evenly into the Gregorian calendar. That means that each year, dates shift over one day of the week (two during leap years).
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The calendar follows a pattern of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month.
I am curious how one gets funding to study something like this. I have this idea for studying the correlation between drinking heavily and peeing more. There seems to be some sort of correlation, but that could be coincidence…
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if doctor Richard Henry’s close circle of friends is composed by a short, tiny, nearsighted white guy; an Indian who’s so shy to girls he can’t speak to them unless he’s drunk; a skinny, Jewish NASA enigneer who still lives with his mom; and finally a blonde bombshell from Nebraska who is an aspiring actress while she works as a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory?
It’s a windmill. The effort to switchover would be gargantuan and prohibitively expensive. It was only recently (1926), that we managed to get every country on the same calendar and narrowed to only a handful of notation formats. The “problem” of calculating interest rates? Solved. We have computers for that and everyone understands the difference between “a month” and “30 days”. The effort to switch everyone and everything over to the new calendar would unbelievably expensive and for this expense we get the benefit of making it easier to remember on what day of the week a given day falls? As I said, it’s a windmill.
Funding: the only difference between this “astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins who has been pushing for calendar reform for years” and the proprietor of Time Cube.
If you want accurate just use the Mayan calender. However it should be noted that the Chinese, orthodox Jews, Muslims, etc. don’t use the Gregorian calendar which is a slightly modified Roman Calendar.
Why not make a metric calendar? 10 days in a week, 10 weeks in a month, you would only have 1 slop month with an odd number of days and weeks.
It certainly would make planning easier.
Better yet; four day weeks. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Everybody could celebrate gloomy Mondays, TGIF and have a nice weekend.
On leap year, we’d throw in a Wednesday. Just for spelling class.
How does changing the calendar get more Americans driving 4×4′s and living in big houses? Priorities people.