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    It is possible to invent a calendar in which every month starts on the same day of the week.

    Let us take thirteen months of twenty-eight days. This totals 364 days.

    So once a year we insert a day between Sunday and Monday to bring it up to 365 days.

    Every four years we insert another day between Sunday and Monday. I now suggest the new days could be called Christmas Day, and Leap Year Day. These are not days of the week, but holidays.

    Then we need to give a name to the extra month. We could call the months 1 to 13 – which is bound to be the short form anyway, but it would be nice to give them romantic names.

    Logically, therefore, every month would begin on Monday, and end on a Sunday.

     

    Old calendar

    Year day

    New calendar

    Year day

     

    January

    1

    Month 1

    1

    New Year’s Day

    February

    32

    2

    29

     

    March

    60

    3

    57

     

    April

    91

    4

    85

    c. 80 Equinox

    84 or 91 Easter

    May

    121

    5

    113

     

    June

    152

    6

    141

     

    July

    182

    7

    169

     

    August

    213

    8

    197

    c. 172 Solstice

    September

    243

    9

    225

     

    October

    274

    10

    253

     

    November

    305

    11

    281

    c. 265 Equinox

    December

    335

    12

    309

     

    Tredeciber

     

    13

    337

    c. 355 Solstice

    Between Sunday and Monday

     

     

    365

    Christmas Day

    Between Sunday and Monday

     

     

    366

    Leap Year Day

      

     

    We could keep all special days on the same year-days of the old calendar, so they would then be on different dates in the new calendar.

    Easter is normally the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. I suggest that Easter would be the first Sunday of the 4th month.

    I spoke to a Catholic priest a few years ago, and he said that the days of the week go back to the time of Christ, and cannot be changed.

    But a few centuries ago we adopted the Gregorian calendar. stripping out 11 days of the week!

    This calendar has the unique property of a fixed relationship between the month and the days of the week.

    It would also be simpler to know when the new moon falls, because it is about one day later each month, except when the intervening days occur.This has been mooted in the past, but at present, we are in a time of great upheaval caused by the pandemic, and I felt that the world needed to reset itself into a new way of thinking. Therefore, I worked further on the idea, and found it even better than before. Each week and each month of the year would start on a Monday, and end on a Sunday.

    I would be interested to hear what others think about this idea?

     

     

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