REFORMING THE CALENDAR.
A UNIFORM YEAR OF 364 DAYS SUGGESTED. The reform of the Gregorian calendar has cropped up again. It is stated in Berne that the Swiss Federal Council has decided to convene an international conference to examine the question of the Gregorian calendar. It is believed that the Holy See, having expressed itself favourable to a reform, there should be no great difficulties in bring the change into existence. The conference will be asked to base its deliberations on the following scheme: —The year would be composed of 364 days, divided into 52 weeks. Each quarter would consist of two months of 30 days, and one month of 31 days. The months of this last category—March, June, September, and December—would have five Sundays instead of four. The New Year v/ould be a festival without a date, and in bissextile years there would be interposed a second clay without between June 31 and July 1. It is probable that many will be of the opinion that the present system is well enough without embittering life with new cares appertaining to an altered division of time.
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Northern Advocate, 26 January 1911, Page 2
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186REFORMING THE CALENDAR. Northern Advocate, 26 January 1911, Page 2
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