NEW SOVIET CALENDAR
DIVISION OF THE YEAR
REVOLUTIONARY FEASTS
(Received 7th' January, 10.30 a.m.)j BERLIN, 6th January. The Soviet Committee charged with fitting the five days week into a calendar of months and years, reviewed more than a hundred projects for reform, and- finally decided to preserve the Gregorian framework. The New Year, however, begins on Ist November in honour of the revolution. The years are numbered from 1917. The Soviet Union therefore is now in the third month of the year 13. A year consists of 360 working days and five Revolutionary feast days, on which all workshops are closed. The year is further divided into four quarters of 90 days, and twelve months of 30 days, each containing six five-day weeks. The five Revolutionary feasts always fall on the 31st of the. month. The days will be named Yellow, Pink, Red, Blue, and Green/ and the workmen are divided into five shifts called after the colour of the day on which they do not work. The months will retain their capitalist names. .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 9
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