NEW SOVIET CALENDAR
TWELVE EVEN MONTHS AND A FIVE-DAY WEEK REVOLUTION FEAST DAYS Reed. 9.30 a.m. BERLIN, Monday. The Soviet Committee which is charged with the duty of fitting a five-day week into a calendar of months and years has reviewed more than 100 projects for reform and has finally decided to preserve the Gregorian framework. The New Year, however, begins on November, in honour of the revolution. The years are numbered from 1917. The Soviet Union therefore is now in the third month of the year. The 13th year consists of 360 working days and five revolutionary feast days, on which all workshops are closed- The year is further divided into four quarters, each of 90 days, and 12 months, each of 30 days and each containing six five-day weeks. The five revolutionary feasts always fall on the 31st of the month. The days Will be named Yellow, Pink, Red, Blue, and Green, and workmen will be divided into five shifts each of which will be called after the colour of the day on which its members do not work. The months will retain their capitalist names.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19300107.2.81
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
188NEW SOVIET CALENDAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in