A FIXED CALENDAR.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1927, Page 4

A FIXED CALENDAR.

A calendar dear cf all cares, contradictions. and compieatious is the tmdietions:, and complications i.s the Calendar” League, one of the circulars of which was distributed to-day. Our present uneven months lead to difficulties in reckoning, and the League wishes, jf’y international agreement. to introduce a uniform twentyeight day mouth instead, 'litis would, of course, mean that there would he an extra month and a day lelt over. It is proposed that the extra (lay should lie called “Year’s Day,” and ho placed outside the year and observed as a general holiday, a sort of perch on which we might rest between the two years. 'Hie extra month, it is most wisely suggested, sihould he between June and July, tints giving us an additional summer month. Sunday would be the first, eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-secmid of every month, and the other days would be lived accordingly. Under present conditions if a day ot the week be fixed the date becomes shifting. as for example in the frequent arrangement, “the committee will meet oil the first Monday ol each month” the dale may vary trom the first to the seventh yarn! it is not possible to fix a, date, as it would fall on Sunday occasionally. 1 ndet* the iixed calendar the first Monday ot the moilli would always be the same date and all monthly events such as paydays and market days would full on the* same dates. Monthly statistics would need no adjustments tor < omparative purposes: there would he no need lor wall calendars, as clocks could be made to show lionr, day and date. Altogether an admirable reform against, which there are but two criticisms. The calendars which the League state will become obsolete have of late years become things ol ical beauty, admirably fitted for keeping one’s name permanently before one's customers; and also, alas, to limbo would go that delightful poem beginning ■’Thirty days hath September. April, June and Not ember.” The Manchester Guardian Commercial.