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I have chosen elements from all proposals presented in Encarta © 97 above but also added some, maybe very interesting new features:
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| · I have created a Perpetual Calendar in which, every year, quarter, month and week starts on a Monday. There is the same number of business-days in every quarter. |
This means that a given date always will fall on the same weekday in every year to come for ever. This property is useful in business but very, very much more. All days have dates and day numbers. |
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· The New Calendar has thirteen months like The Fixed Calendar proposal had. See the excerpt from Encarta © 97. I have inserted a special month instead of the month Sol they had in the fixed calendar. I have chosen the name Festival for this month because it has a very a good tradition. Festivals enhance wellbeing.
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In several older calendars, including the French revolution calendar, they have had a Festival month. I prefer to have the Festival month at the end of year including Christmas and New Year holidays on the same day numbers as in the not revised Gregorian calendar - not to change any tradition unnecessarily. |
| · The New Calendar has 48 business weeks, 12 seven day weeks in all quarters, all unbroken of any holidays. Some holidays are moved somewhat and/or contained in the Festival month 11 days, and in the NEW month-end days, Omni day and Univ day, in total 29 days - week end days uncounted. |
An odd month has 29 days and a three days long month-end. An even month has 30 days and a four days long month-end. This wills synchronize nicely with the moon-phases of 29.5 days. Months is basically very strongly connected to the phases of the moon. |
| · The solution to compose a calendar with the properties above is intercalating extra days between months with no ordinary weekday names but instead month end - day names. |
I have coined the names Omni day and Univ day for these days because these days could be used for anything everywhere. These days are very useful for traveling, vacations, recreations, social and sports activities. |
| · The movable feast Easter in the not revised Gregorian calendar has got a fixed position in my new calendar. I found the last week of March just after Spring Equinox that happens on the same date the 20-21 of March and the same day number as in the not revised Gregorian calendar most suitable. A holiday at Spring Outbreak- Nice! |
The Vatican said already 1922 that nothing in the canonical law would prevent a fixed Easter-feast-reform. But the Anglican-Church refused the changes proposed, because the Easter would still move one week back and forth in that proposal from the Vatican. |
| · In the international calendar Monday is the first day of the week.In the US calendar there is also a deviation from international daylight-saving dates. |
I have adopted the international features to get a possibility for a more uniform calendar that could meet wide acceptance and most hopefully be adopted universally. |
| · The Festival month has dates and day numbers as any other normal month but the days has got unique names instead of weekday names or month end names. As in western traditional calendars I have kept Christmas Evening, Christmas Day, New Years Evening on the same day number. |
But I have changed New Years Eve into Old Years Day and moved New Years Day into the last day of the year instead of the first day of the year. In case of Leap Year, the Leap Year Day is added as the last day. This will be intercalated as Leap-Year-Day, 12th of Festival and day number 366. |
| · I have added following unique day names in the Festival month: "Liberty, Justice, Equality, Democracy, Humanity, Peace and The World Day". The purpose of choosing these names is that they represent values that are fundamental in almost every religion and culture and no matter of race. |
And we have got Only One World to take care of. It would be nice to celebrate those who have contributed most to support these values all over the world. Every nation and/or culture can have their own candidates. Festival is supposed to be free from work and duties for almost every body to allow participation in the celebrations. |
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Additional Notes
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E-mail New calendar: New_calendar@comcast.net
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Lars Romare's home-page: http://L.Romare.home.comcast.net
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Copyright © Lars Romare
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Published January 18, 2003
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Updated December 18, 2003
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