Re: Joining list. Calendar reforms.

Dear Irv, Mike and Calendar People

Alternatively, one could have 454 months with financial days on the 1^st Monday of the 1^st month, 1^st Wednesday of the 2^nd month and 5^th Saturday of the 2^nd month and so on every three months. This would create financial months of 30:31:30 days overlaying the 454 months.

If you want every financial month to begin during the working day, the 3^rd financial day can be moved to the 5^th Friday of the 2^nd month, to create  30:30:31. Also the three financial month would have an equal number (26) of non-Sundays as for World Calendar Month.

But there is a BIG drawback with all such systems, they are all disrupted by the leap week!

This is the main reason for favouring 454 to 010.

Perhaps for a quarter containing the leap week we could have financial month begin on the 1^st Monday of the 1^st month, 1^st Friday of the 2^nd month and 1^st Wednesday of the 3^rd month, which would give financial months of 32:33:33 days and a different equal number (28) of non-Sundays each month.

There was a proposal called the Pragmatic Civil Calendar, which spread the leap week through the whole year rather than just one quarter as suggested then. In this calendar a leap year had all months had 31 days, except one with 30 days. Such a calendar would have radically different leap years, so wiping out much of the benefit of reform.

Karl

10(08(26 till noon