REFORM OF CALENDAR.
ONE RECENT PROPOSAL. The reform of the calendar is a question that has been much discussed at Geneva, and the League of Nations has definitely urged reform. We want a calendar which does not change every year the relation of the days of the week to the days of the month. The trouble arises from the fairly obvious fact that if the 365 days of the year are divided by the seven days of the week, there remains one day over. Consequently the only way to secure regularity year by year is to treat one day of the year as a non-week day. The simplest plan would be to locate this day at the end of the year between December 31 and January 1 and call it Old Year’s Day. The remaining 364 days of the year could then be divided into four equal quarters, each containing exactly 13 weeks.
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Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1443, 20 July 1933, Page 1
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