RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 11:55 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 12:03 am by SteelCurtain.)
(February 25, 2015 at 6:02 pm)Chas Wrote:(February 24, 2015 at 8:37 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Nice. I like that. Would the winter holiday be back to back with New Year's? And on the leap year, would we have three straight days of party!?!?
Yeah, that sounds good.
Another way to go is 4 quarters of 30/30/31 day months with a New Year's Day, and a Midsummer Day in leap years.
Almost anything is more sensible than what we've got.
Right?
*googles
I just learned a lot about months and the Gregorian calendar. I had no idea that there aren't leap years on the century marks except the ones divisible by 400. So the year 2100 will not be a leap year but the year 2400 will. Fascinating. Seems we owe the seemingly arbitrary month lengths to 'ol Julius and Augustus. The rascals and their egos.
It's little things like the fact that a year is really 365.2425 (and really slightly shorter than that---the Gregorian calendar will be one day ahead every 3300 years) days long that really cement that the universe wasn't created for us.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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