Peace036 – Are you in favor that we changeover from the present Gregorian calendar to a perpetual one?

Question

The present calendar was promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. It replaced the more than 1600-year-old Julian calendar that Julius Caesar instituted in the Roman Empire in 45 BC.

The Gregorian has several problems that it needs to be reformed. How would you like that we changeover to a perpetual calendar so that we don’t change the calendar anymore? The new calendar will still have 365 days in a common year and 366 days in a leap year, 12 months in a year starting from January 1 and ending on December 31, and with the same rules for leap year.

To make it perpetual and more uniform, we just make each quarter equal to 91 days or 13 weeks. The fourth quarter will have 92 days with December 31 as a no-weekday and an official public holiday throughout the world. During leap years, the second quarter will have 92 days also with June 31 as a no-weekday and a bonus public holiday.

We can make Monday as the first day of the week, so January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 will always be Monday. This agrees with ISO designation. And the 13th day of the month will never fall on a Friday.

These are some features that we can incorporate in the new perpetual calendar. Are you in favor of changing over to a perpetual calendar? What do you think we should do?

To Frank N - Thanks a lot for your view. If several European countries were able to change from their national currencies to the Euro in three years, which is more complicated, maybe we could do it also.

Answer 1

Adopting a new calendar would be very costly, with little or no benefit. Your proposal just exchanges some exceptions for others.

The fundamental problem is that the time it takes earth to orbit the sun is not an integral multiple of the time it takes the earth to rotate, and both change independently. The time it takes the moon to orbit the earth is also independent, and that's where the month originated.