Re: Part2, Joining list. Calendar reforms.

 
Irv--
 
That's interesting that others in modern times (including you)  have looked into a calendar that divides equally the eclliptic, instead of the year's days.
 
I hadn't considered the motion of perihelion, and the changing eccentricity, and I'm disappointed to hear that that would mess  up an ecliptic-measured calendar. But ok--an ecliptic-meassured calendar would be more difficult to explain anyway, and wouldn't have the nice neat regularity that would otherwise be possible. So my "Fancy" version might not be a good proposal after-all.
 
Yes, using an ecliptic-measured calendar would mean giving up having the months &/or quarters have whole numbers of weeks. I probably wouldn't suggests (but wouldn't oppose) an exliptic-measured calendar being a fixed calendar. Such a fixed calendar would still have the advantage of no need to reschedule annualy due to different calendar each year. But of course it would lose the advantage of easy day-of-week determinations.
 
Yes, I'd always add the leapweek to the last month or quarter.
 
Mike Ossipoff
 
 
 
 

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