On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:12:40 GMT, David Harper <devnull@obliquity.u-net.com> wrote: >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 I wa not interested in leading the movement. 8-) I don't even have to use my knuckles to keep track of the days in a month. Hugh