Re: Calendar reform

oriel36 wrote:

This will be hopefully a light and lively discussion with a strong
Christian influence on a matter that is long overdue. As much of this
topic is new territory and allows room for plenty of errors of
judgement and unfamiliarity it may awaken a sense of pride in an area
that generally does not get much attention these days.

There are 1461 days between Mar 1st 2008 and Feb 29th 2012 which
correspond to 365 1/4 days for each year.Anyone care to explain why we
require a leap day and where the 1/4 day goes each year in non-leap
years ?.

There is no simple relationship between the time it takes for the sun to
rise, set and rise again, and the time it takes the earth to go once
round the sun.

On the news this morning I heard that a new planet had been discovered.
For the briefest of brief moments I thought that what was meant was that
an old planet had been recently discovered, but since words are the
business of journalists I expect they use them correctly or at least
carefully, and that it is indeed a new planet. So here's my suggestion:
God, having made a mess of our local astronomical arrangements, must
have learned from his errors and created this new planet with more
logical ones; let us then move there immediately.

[Another seeming inanity on the news (this one yesterday, I think): the
Labour Party was meant to have both Milibands in senior posts. Perhaps
someone cleverer than I can explain how a political party can mean to
have anything.]

--

This [the pre-Julian Egyptian, Babylonian and Persian] calendar
is, indeed, the only intelligent calendar which ever existed in
human history.
Otto Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity


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