Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!pedsgo!evan From: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Counting years (now: New Calendars) Message-ID: <385@pedsgo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 08:53:22 EDT Article-I.D.: pedsgo.385 Posted: Tue Sep 2 08:53:22 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Sep-86 05:30:29 EDT References: <593@pyramid.UUCP> <951@hou2g.UUCP> Reply-To: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) Lines: 39 Organization : Concurrent Computer Corp. (a Perkin-Elmer Company), Tinton Falls, NJ In article <951@hou2g.UUCP> 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. > Well, I don't know if this was proposed by Isaac, but I remember seeing a proposal for another kind of calendar. The calendar I saw had 13 months of 28 days (13 x 28 = 364). Every month could start on the same day, and every month, each date fell on the same day of the week. (i.e. every month the 10th could be a Thursday) The calendar would NOT start on a Sunday, though, for all the superstitious people who didn't like Fridays on the 13th. There would be an extra day (2 in leap years), and these would not fall on a regular part of the calendar; they would not be 'days of the week', but rather would be special days that would simply have names, and be national holidays. Finally, I believe the 13th month was called "Universal". (I think the movie studio was behind it...:-) ) Am I the only person who remembers this system?? -- NAME: Evan L. Marcus UUCP: ...{pesnta|prcrs|princeton|topaz|hjuxa|vax135}!petsd!pedsgo!evan USnail: CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (a Perkin-Elmer Company) M/S 308, 106 Apple St., Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 MA BELL:(201) 758-7357 QUOTE: "Use more honey; find out what she knows." -- John Whorfen