Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!lll-crg!lll-lcc!csustan!smdev From: smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Counting years Message-ID: <150@csustan.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 14:19:34 EDT Article-I.D.: csustan.150 Posted: Tue Sep 2 14:19:34 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Sep-86 04:59:50 EDT References: <593@pyramid.UUCP> <951@hou2g.UUCP> Reply-To: smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) Organization: City of Turlock Lines: 26 Keywords: Reform Calendar Asimov Summary: Asimovian Calendar In article <> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Josiah S. Carberry) writes: >I remember reading a book of essays by Isaac Asimov in which >he proposed a new calendar. I don't remember the details, but >it seemed very logical (if unconventional). I believe it had >the virtues of not having to account for "leap" years, and each >date fell on the same day of the week each year. It had something >like an 80 day month, and I think the "week" may not have had >7 days. >Anybody remember this, who can post some more details? The book >may have been "The Tragedy of the Moon", but I'm not sure. > Scott J. Berry ihnp4!hou2g!scott As I recall, he proposed four 90-day quarters (360 days total) which would be arranged in "weeks" (I don't remember how long either, but it was almost certainly a divisor of 90). The rest of the days in a year would be accounted for by inserting days between the quarters. These days would not be part of any week. The result would have been that the same calendar could be used for each and every year (with the relatively trivial exception of leap year, which would create yet another extra day). At the time, I found Isaac's argument very convincing... \scott -- Scott Hazen Mueller lll-crg.arpa!csustan!smdev City of Turlock work: (209) 668-5590 -or- 5628 901 South Walnut Avenue home: (209) 527-1203 Turlock, CA 95380