Reforming the Calendar.
j Our present system of dividing the year into twelve mouths of a varying number of dayy makes the working out dates much more complicated than it aeed be. Already many suggestions have | been put forward, and otio of them ' might be put into force by Act of Par- j liament any day, which would be an excellent and convenient tiling for all of ; us. One of the best suggestions is as j follows : Firstly, to divide the year into i , thirteen months, each of twenty-eight j I days. An extra month, which would be. ( j called Solaris, would be inserted be- i • tween June and July. This disposes of j I 3G4 days out of the 365. *'Now there is a day over. This would be called j New Year's Df.y, and not he counted in i any month. It would be just the first day of the year, and probably a universal holiday. By (his scheme Saturday froiild always fall upon the 7th, 1-ltlv, 21st, or 28th of a month, and i the Ist, Bth. loth, and 22nd would.al- 1 ways be Suruh-.ys. B i
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Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14430, 23 October 1914, Page 7
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190Reforming the Calendar. Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14430, 23 October 1914, Page 7
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