On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:50:23 -0500, singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: >Peter J Seymour wrote: > >> Just a thought, stemming from research into calendar differences though >> history - has anyone knowledge of a person recorded as being born/dying >> on the 30th February? (and did this cause any problems) >> Peter > >Would whether it was a problem sort of depend on _when_? >Under the really really old calendars, there was a 30 Feb, >and it wouldn't have been a problem for anyone. In 1752, >things were confused enough that anything is possible, and >after that, drunken clerks we will have always with us. (g) > >Cheryl Why not a calendar of 12, 30 day months with 5 world days and a sixth every 4 years? That would certainly save our knuckles and between from being counting boards for the months. Hugh

J. Hugh Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:50:23 -0500, singhals <singhals@erols.com> > wrote: > >> Peter J Seymour wrote: >> >>> Just a thought, stemming from research into calendar differences though >>> history - has anyone knowledge of a person recorded as being born/dying >>> on the 30th February? (and did this cause any problems) >>> Peter >> Would whether it was a problem sort of depend on _when_? >> Under the really really old calendars, there was a 30 Feb, >> and it wouldn't have been a problem for anyone. In 1752, >> things were confused enough that anything is possible, and >> after that, drunken clerks we will have always with us. (g) >> >> Cheryl > > Why not a calendar of 12, 30 day months with 5 world days and a sixth > every 4 years? That would certainly save our knuckles and between from > being counting boards for the months. The French tried such a calendar early in their Revolutionary period. It lasted less than thirteen years. There's probably a moral in there somewhere for anyone who fancies themselves as calendar reformers in the mould of Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII :-) David Harper Cambridge, England

Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) writes: > Why not a calendar of 12, 30 day months with 5 world days and a sixth > every 4 years? That would certainly save our knuckles and between from > being counting boards for the months. Such a calendar has been proposed but with 30-31-30 days repeated four times with an extra day at the end of the year. Another extra day can be added at the end of the second quarter for leap years.