Better than a metric year
For the sake of an ongoing conversation Hunter and I have about 10-day weeks and
metric alphabets:
New Scientist - Novel calendar system creates regular datesHenry designed a calendar that uses 364 days, which breaks down evenly into 52 weeks. In his so called 'Calendar-and-Time' (C&T) plan, each month contains 30 or 31 days. He decided on each month's length by forbidding the new calendar to differ from the old one by more than five days and by setting Christmas Day, 25 December, to always fall on a Sunday.
Extra week
His constraints meant eight months would have different lengths than they do now. March, June, September, and December would each contain 31 days, while the other months would each get 30. To keep the calendar in synchronisation with the seasons, Henry inserted an extra week - which is not part of any month - every five or six years. He named the addition 'Newton Week' in honour of his favourite physicist, Isaac Newton."
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* Ray, 1/04/2005 10:26:34 PM
