This calendar contains 12 months of familiar lengths, from February punctuated by "leap day" added every four years (except, to be precise, in the year ending in 00, which are governed by the rules a little bit harder).
Debate on the calendar if it is not so old as time, nothing new. George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Co, once complained that the Gregorian calendar created many problems.
"They are on different days of the week changes every year," Mr. Eastman wrote in 1926. It was not only unpleasant, he said. It also means additional costs for companies seeking to organize your schedule.
Enter the two professors at Johns Hopkins University, an astrophysicist and an economist with the fact that they think that the best way for us to manage your time.
Richard Conn Henry and Steve Hanke said that 2012 should mark the beginning of a new calendar in which Christmas Day always falls on a Sunday, and many other things also get better when planning a birthday party for the calculation of interest on the mortgage.
It is said that a simple calendar is better for the economy and society. Although the intercalary days away, a new schedule is still not a solution, that the annual revolution around the Earth from the Sun does not divide easily into year seven days a week (365 days or, for that matter).
The proposed 364 days (364 divided by 7) Henry Hanke is a constant calendar will ignore this issue in most years, and add a week for a "mini-month" (call it a week break?) At the end of December of every five or six years.
In addition to this week is not normal, which they dub Xtr (or more) each year will consist of four quarters of 91 days (always a total of 12 months, eight of which are 30 days and 31 days of the four).
"Our plan offers a steady schedule of absolutely identical from year to year and allows the time, rational planning of annual activities of the school day," said Henry, an astrophysicist, in a statement recently published in the university.
Not everyone likes the idea. On the one hand, many people like the fact that his birthday is not to land on, say, every year on Tuesday, as it occurs in the calendar, Henry Hanke. Then there is a simple inertia of tradition.
But the economist Henry and Mr. Hanke responds fire back at his critics.
Too hard to convince people to change? Consider the advantages. "How much unnecessary work that institutions such as businesses and colleges in the organization of the calendar for each upcoming year?" they wrote in the online promotion of the idea (what the source of credit for the calendar whiz named Bob McClenon). People thought that Canada would never adjust to the temperature of Celsius, but the change has come.
Too big a break with tradition? Henry Hanke said that seven days a week, according to Saturday does not change, unlike many other new civilian regimes that have been proposed.
Too hard? Relax, you can celebrate your birthday on the day you want, they say. Even if you were born during this week called irregular XTR.
Among the financial benefits specifically for some types of account: Determination of the amount of accrued interest on mortgages, bonds, or other agreements no longer need complex agreements on the timing quirks, Hanke said.
And the researchers noted at the end of last year on January 1, 2012, the date would be natural to introduce a new regime of time, because January 1 falls on a Sunday, as in the current calendar of Pope Gregory and the simplified graph.
So far, in the middle of press events such as elections, and a major global problem of a nuclear Iran, the idea has not received wide public support.
At least, it is a reminder that the calendar is something of human creativity, and not hit a rock. (Well, some of which were carved in stone.) Or maybe the idea will spread, after a day or two passed the jump.
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