Off Topic: Calendar reform (was: 2^1024 (was: something else again))
Off Topic: Calendar reform (was: 2^1024 (was: something else again))
- Subject: Off Topic: Calendar reform (was: 2^1024 (was: something else again))
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:12:15 -0800
On 2/25/01 2:01 AM, email@hidden <email@hidden> wrote:
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I read once an interesting proposal that would produce a fixed day of the
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week for every date. Its simply a matter of making one day a year not part
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of the week, and making leap year day not part of the week. Then, you have
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364 (=7*52) weekdays, broken up into four equal quarters of 13 weeks each.
This proposal is at least fifty years old; I first heard about it about
1950-55, at the New York Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium,
and it was not new then.
--Michelle
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