Yes, that thing on your phone, on your desk and maybe even still on the wall that tells you what day it is. It's screwed up, royally.
And here's why you should care about this:
You think you've got enough work lined up to pay your employees (and the bills) next month. Then you realize that this is November, or April, and there are LESS days than you expected. You may be screwed by an entire workday of less work, and less monthly income!
You spend your time singing a song to figure out how many days we have this month. That's ridiculous.
You spend time and money buying new calendars every year, because every year is wildly different.
Each business quarter is a different length, so its difficult to compare apples to apples when figuring out sales, salaries, etc.
You can't figure out, easily, how many days are left in the year, or how many have passed. And maybe you've never tried to work this out, because it's just too complicated.
BUT THERE'S HOPE. All we have to do is change the way way mark days.
We don't have to shorten the year. It can still be 365 or 366 days long. (And it should be, since that's how long our year IS, according to astronomy)
All we have to do is re-work the messy calendar we have now to make it MAKE SENSE.
The good news is that this has already been done. We just have to choose one. Here are some examples:
There's a calendar, the Sol Calendar, in which EVERY MONTH begins on the same day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) and every month has exactly 28 days, except December, which has 29, and 30 on leap years every four years. The trick here is that there are 13 months, instead of 12. It makes far more sense than our current calendar.
Another calendar reform idea, the 30x11 ("thirty-eleven") Calendar, has 30 days in every month, again except for December, which has 35, or 36 on leap years. Too many days? Nope. The year still has 365 or 366 days, it just puts the 31st days and leap day in December. A huge benefit, when figuring out how many days have passed in a year. For example, Day 100 would ALWAYS be April 10th.
The Symmetry454 calendar is a grand experiment in symmetry. It features four equal quarters of three months each, consisting of 28, 35 and 28 days, respectively (or 4 weeks, 5 weeks and 4 weeks for the three months repeating, symmetrically, each quarter, from which the calendar derives its name.) In leap years, a seven-day week is appended to December, making it a 35-day month. Business owners and accountants will be happily surprised to learn that it has symmetrically equal quarters, and every month begins on a Monday.
The New Earth Calendar would be a bit of a hybrid of two of the above proposals. It has the 13-month format of the Sol Calendar as well as the 7-day leap week of the Symmetry454 Calendar, making an interesting and attractive calendar proposal that attempts to have the best of both worlds, and does so with a great measure of success. It has a perpetual 364-day year of 13 identical months of 28 days each.
This calendar is astoundingly simple to remember - all months have 28 days - and every month and every year starts on a Monday. Why don't we have something like this?
In fact, why we don't have ANY of these proposals, rather than the clunky, screwed up calendar we have now?
DEMAND CHANGE!
First, EDUCATE YOURSELF. Check out "A New Calendar For The World," a cheap eBook that describes these and even MORE ideas to fix the calendar.
Then TAKE ACTION by demanding that our elected officials fix the calendar.
