The New Calendar

By Linda Murphy

Without looking at a calendar, what day will your birthday fall on seven years from now? What day does your anniversary fall on? The calculations to arrive at the answers to these questions, rather than being quick and simple, are often mind-boggling complex and painful. We can change to a new calendar which guarantees all dates always fall on the same day of the week, eliminating both uncertainty and complex calendar calculations. With a little bit of math and imagination, this book provides a radical vision of a new calendar as a solid, regular, dependable structure which provides much more support for our need to track dates and measure time than our current calendar provides. What a relief to know any date's place on the calendar, exactly where it's expect it to be!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Murphy
• Release date: Dec 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301716494

Linda Murphy

Linda Murphy was born and raised on Long Island. She enjoyed school tremendously; her favorite subjects were mathematics, science and English. In High School she studied algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, chemistry, biology, physics, French and Basic (a computer programming language) as well as the regular curriculum, and graduated summa cum laude. At University she continued studying science and math, and also enjoyed computer science, linguistics, and a smattering of anthropology and psychology courses. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, minoring in linguistics, and graduated magna cum laude. She is a member of the National Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa. Linda has over two decades of experience in the Information Technology field. Her responsibilities have included gathering requirements from users, designing and implementing computer software applications, doing cost-benefit analyses of proposed software models as well as third party systems, providing application quality assurance, software installation. She also maintained software products through gathering, documenting, implementing, testing and installing enhancements and bugs from users. She is available for small or medium software development projects, and for writing and publishing books on SmashWords.

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The New Calendar

Copyright 2017 Linda Murphy

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Initial Decisions

Chapter 3 Three Simple Questions

Chapter 4 Sample Calendars

Chapter 5 Solstices and Equinoxes

Chapter 6 Strengths of the Gregorian Calendar

Chapter 7 Why Hasn't It Been Done Before

Chapter 8 History of Names

Chapter 9 Conclusion

Appendix A References

Appendix B Conversion Charts

Index

About the Author

Chapter 1 Introduction

The Gregorian Calendar, adopted in 1582, is internationally the most widely accepted civil calendar, according to Wikipedia. The G.C. (Gregorian Calendar) is over four hundred and thirty years old, and it's about time we replaced it with a new calendar. Why? Try the following: in just a few seconds and without looking at a calendar for reference, what day of the week did New Year's Day fall on, seven years ago? What day of the week is your birthday on in three years? What will be the date of the fourth Thursday two Novembers from now? I'm sure some of us can do these calendar calculations in our heads. But for most of us, it is impossible. To further illustrate why the G.C. is a poor tool, let's look at three household measuring tools.

The measuring cup shows how much volume a liquid occupies. The measuring tape shows the length of an object. The thermometer shows the temperature of the surrounding air. They all have larger