Calendar News: Drop 12/31? Problem solved?

Professor Dick Henry, the creator of the Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time Calendar isn't at all worried that he has missed the January 1, 2006 implementation date for his calendar. It would have been a perfect time to adopt it, since it, like the Gregorian year 2006, starts on a Sunday.

He says on his Website: "[I]t is not a big deal. All that needs to be done is to drop 2006 December 31 (that is, rename that day 2007 January 1), and all is well. Similarly, a two-year delay could be easily accommodated by dropping 2007 Dec 30 AND 2007 Dec 31. (The new "last day" of the old year could be celebrated as New Year's Eve.) So, the argument that there is not sufficient time to implement CCC&T just does not hold water."

It's highly unlikely that dates would ever be dropped from the calendar simply to shoehorn in a new version.

I do wonder why he simply didn't suggest waiting until 2012, when January 1 is again a Sunday. It is unlikely his, or any other, new calendar will be adopted quickly.

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