Calendar makers were probably the first people to come up with the concept of planned obsolescence.
I’m not getting a lot of support for my proposal to change the calendar. Each month has 28 days. Each month starts on Sunday the first and ends on Saturday the 28th. Every month is identical.
Thirteen such months make up 364 days. The extra day needed is called New Year Day and it is part of the new year, but is not part of a month or week. It simply gets slipped in between Friday the 28th of the old year and Sunday the 1st of the New Year. This assures a three-day weekend without shortening the work week on either side.
Every 4 years, Leap Day will be added at the end of the year immediately before New Year Day.
Calendar makers hate the idea. Also, it is not popular with triskaidekaphobiacs since there are 13 Friday the 13ths.
The Romans actually used to do something like this, just to realign the year with the calendar.
The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days after the first 23 or 24 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days.
The Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect in 45 BC (709 AUC). It was the predominant calendar in most of Europe, and in European settlements in the Americas and elsewhere, until it was refined and superseded by the Gregorian calendar. The difference in the length of the year between Julian (365.25 days) and Gregorian (365.2425 days) is 0.002%.
It must have been fun to wake up before 46 BCE and wonder what day or month it really was!
ratlum over 10 years ago
Sure cut lnto the holiday season.
davidh48 over 10 years ago
I couldn’t find a Great Northern Railway calendar this year. Could you folks help, even if I can only use 11 months of one?
TIA!
midiranger over 10 years ago
@davidh48http://www.gnrhs.org/store/product-info-mbr.php?pid458.htmlsimple Google search . .
countrycuzzin over 10 years ago
Ummm, wouldn’t 16 months only bring us to April, not June???
dflak over 10 years ago
Calendar makers were probably the first people to come up with the concept of planned obsolescence.
I’m not getting a lot of support for my proposal to change the calendar. Each month has 28 days. Each month starts on Sunday the first and ends on Saturday the 28th. Every month is identical.
Thirteen such months make up 364 days. The extra day needed is called New Year Day and it is part of the new year, but is not part of a month or week. It simply gets slipped in between Friday the 28th of the old year and Sunday the 1st of the New Year. This assures a three-day weekend without shortening the work week on either side.
Every 4 years, Leap Day will be added at the end of the year immediately before New Year Day.
Calendar makers hate the idea. Also, it is not popular with triskaidekaphobiacs since there are 13 Friday the 13ths.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 10 years ago
why moon 13 people?
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 10 years ago
The Romans actually used to do something like this, just to realign the year with the calendar.
The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days after the first 23 or 24 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days.
The Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect in 45 BC (709 AUC). It was the predominant calendar in most of Europe, and in European settlements in the Americas and elsewhere, until it was refined and superseded by the Gregorian calendar. The difference in the length of the year between Julian (365.25 days) and Gregorian (365.2425 days) is 0.002%.
It must have been fun to wake up before 46 BCE and wonder what day or month it really was!
jppjr over 10 years ago
I’m for a calendar of 25 months with 14 days in each month…at least that way, you could kiss April 15 good bye…
route66paul about 10 years ago
And no blue moons