Please note! This calendar is similar to the Cotsworth calendar.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
What is Oncember?
It is the 13th month
Why do we need a 13th month?
Because it will make life a lot easier for everyone
Basically every months has the same number of days 28, exactly 4 weeks. This way every month starts on the same day of the week Monday, and ends on a Sunday. It fits exactly into a year of 13 months with one (new years day) left over :)
This site proposes that we change our calendar to 13 months of exactly 28 days each for a total of 13*28=364 days and make the extra day a new years day holiday!
New years day would not have a date or day of the week name (Mon, Tues....)
A leap year could have 2 such holidays.
With enough support and publicity we could persuade governments to implement the change starting Jan 1st 2018 (Monday).
For more information on how the western calendar has dominated the world and the history of our calendar please visit http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-history.html
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This is an interesting concept and as a reform enthusiast myself, I appreciate and enjoy reading about any new ideas to reform the Gregorian.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with days that lie outside the year is that it has been vociferously opposed throughout the last century or so, and has shot down several proposals, such as the World Calendar, which also sought to create a "perfect" 364-day year.
The problem is tradition and religion. Traditionally, all dates have been inside of a year. That goes back millennia. The other issue is religion. Jews and Christians and Muslims worship collectively every seven days. "Days outside of time" as some calendars call them, stand outside of the weekday as well as outside of the calendar year. That is problematic for those who must worship (or do ANYTHING) every seven days. Saying these non-month days are just "holidays" doesn't seem to solve the issue. In which quarter, or year, are the profits from sales for those days accounted?
Jim Eikner’s Sol 13-month calendar http://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/Sol_Calendar is another reform effort. But he simply adds the 365th day to the last day of the year (making one a 29-day month) and also adds the leap year to that month. It’s not as "perfect" but it has benefits. The days are within a year, a month, and a week, and the months are all 28 days long, other than the last one. The calendar can also be adopted in any year, since it begins and ends on the same weekday as the Gregorian.
Also, please check out my reform proposal, the 30x11 calendar, http://www.30x11.com a calendar of 11 30-day months with a longer December. I’ll message you on facebook and send you an eBook that outlines many calendar reform ideas that I think you will enjoy!
Good point, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI suspect you are quite right, the main reason why this calendar would fail to be adopted would be religious. I would be interested to see if the 7th day rest religions would be willing to rest an extra day each year in order to be accommodating to the rest of us? In terms of financial quarters I would favor adding the out of time day to the end of the year rather than the start.