Calendar Reform Proposed

Richard Conn Henry, professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, is proposing a Better Calendar Proposedreformed calendar. His system would maintain 12 months a year and 7 days a week. The chance is that the dates will always fall on the same day of the year. So January 1st will always be a Sunday. To synch up with the seasons (instead of leap year) he proposes an additional week every five years.

Personally I think this is a great idea! No more wondering what day or date holidays would fall on. You birthday would always be on the same day of the week. Sure we give up some variety, but I don't think it would be that big of a loss.

I would suspect that a lot of people won't like the idea though. Especially those who make their money selling new calendars every year. If the dates were always the same, then we could keep reusing the same calendar. I don't know the actual number, but judging by the number of companies, stores, catalogs and website dedicated just to selling calendars, there must be a lot of money in it!