NormalDate 1.2 released

Delaney, Timothy tdelaney at avaya.com
Tue Mar 12 17:56:51 EST 2002


> From: Duncan Booth [mailto:duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk]
> 
> sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin) wrote in 
> 
> > There's even a story that the date of
> > introduction in Sweden varied by parish!
> 
> Dont forget that Sweden even had a 30th February one year!

All calendars are ridiculous. It should be very simple ...

13 x 28 day (4 week) months = 364 days.

1 "extra" day (new year?)
1 additional day in leap years.

The extra days can be used to absorb leap seconds, etc.

You can also define that each month begins on a particular day of the week
(say Sunday). The extra days of the year do not actually have a day of the
week, and would always be between Saturday and Sunday.

IIRC this is the system that the shire hobbits used.

Why was this simple system never adopted?

Tim Delaney




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