FIXED DATE FOR EASTER.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS RECOMMEN- , ■ DATION. LONDON, August 30. The reformation .of the calendar, throughout the world, by providing a fixed date for -Easter, is recommended by a sub-committee of the League of Nations, and the Assembly will debate the .question soon. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on the report, advocates the adoption of the suggestion »that Easter Day should always be the second Sunday in April. To this suggestion the Anglican and Roman' churches are agreeable, though the Greek Church is uncertain.
' The sub-committee suggests further alternatives: (1) To divide, the year into quarters, each containing two months or 30 days, a’nd one month of 31 days, the last day of, the year being "dies non.” (2) To divide the year into 13 months of 28 days, with the same "dies eon.” This -means every date would always be the same day of the week. Leap year would he unchanged.
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Shannon News, 3 September 1926, Page 3
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153FIXED DATE FOR EASTER. Shannon News, 3 September 1926, Page 3
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