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+=====George Gray, The Pope And Calendar Reform.=====
+by Owen Marks.
+Recently in last April's edition of the S.B.W. magazine there was a most useless article on Dates for Easter for the next hundred years or so (now we know what George Gray does with his computer!), but it made me think of a promise I made in a previous article, and that was to write about Calendar Reform - so here goes!
+"Why bother to make a new calendar at all?" you may ask. At the present time a simple thing like your own birthday falls on a different day each year, but a new calendar would be perpetual. The movable feast of Easter is obviously in need of reform. If Jesus was born on a fixed day, why didn't he die on one too? I wish someone would explain it to me. But fixing a permanent date for Easter is not really bound up with a national concept for calendar reform. No, that lies with the Christian churches to solve for themselves or for Governments to force on their own churches under their own dominions. Unlikely, but who would have forecast the actions of Queen Elizabeth I's father?
+When Napoleon changed the order in France his metrical calendar reform failed because people couldn't get used to NOT having a seven-day week. Neither would we. Our present calendar is made up of odd months of different days with the first half of the year having 181 days (182 in leap years) and the second half having 184. The number of days to a month is quite unimportant and I don't think that anybody would be concerned if, in our present calendar, April had 31 or March 30.
-GEORGE GRAY THE POPE AND CALENDAR RETORM. . by Owen Marks.
-Recently in last April's edition of the S.B.W. magazine there was a most useless article on Dates for Easter for the next hundred,.yea,rs or so (now we know what George Gray does with his computer:), but it made me think Of a promise I made in a previous article, and that was to write about qalendar Reform - so here goes:
-"Why bother.	make a new calendar at all?" you may ask. At the present time a simple thing like your own birthday falls on a different day oach year, but a new calendar would be perpetual. The movable feast of Easter is obviously in need of reform. If Jesus was born on a fixed day, Why didn't he die on one too? I wish someone would explain it to me. But fixing a permanent date for Easter is not really bound up with a national concept for calendar reform. HD, that lies with the Christian churches to solve for themselves or for Governments to force on their own churches under their own dominions. Unlikely, but who would have forecast the actions of' 'queen Elizabeth I's father?
-When Napoleon changed the order in France his metrical calendar reform failed because people couldn't get used to NOT having a seven-day week. Neither would we. Our present calendAr is made up of odd months of different days with the first half of the year having 181 days (182 in leap years) and the second half having 184. The number of days to a month is quite unimport*t and I don't think that anybody would be concerned if, in our present calendar, April had 31 or March 30.
 Below is how the NEW WORLD CALENDAR would look and how it would work:.
-JAN APR'JULY OCT	MAY AUG NOV	MAR JUNE SEP 'DEC
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-		3	11		ell	i 1				1	5
-	El	23E1		!G111111?'.				6	, 7	6	9	io	1 I	12		3
-	11111B	15	,-..)_,-(ci		i'411
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-.C-i	Li	22123	74						?".7	-2.6	-297
-_2								rii	48-	Z913.0	31
-,	9	30																				ti,/	LI
-Each quarter would have the same number of days, the same for each half year and there would be 364 days in the year. The additional day would be' squeezed in between the 30th December and the 1st January and be a 7 (WORLD) day.:	very four years an L (LEAP) day would be placed after June 30.
-Obviously the W day would be a world day to celebrate the new year and the 4day/which has to be placed somewhere, either after W day or after June30 would also be a world-wide national holiday. Or sane-such.
-FEB
-Can you see anything wrong with such a scheme? Of course there is, but it is not insurmountable. At the end of every year there would be an 8-day week and the same for the leap year day every four years, and the
-Page 8	THE SYDNEY ,BUSHWALKER	August, 1981.
-Sabbath would fall behind. The only organizations that would be against it in a laud voice, would,ba_thoe:...religions that -have. 6. Sabbathday to keep holy or to be more accurate, those that have a holy day every 7 days, i.e. only the Jews, Muslims and Christians. Don't laugh' or. be fazed by numbers. Read on
-The Muslim calendar in use at present is solely lunar, and that means that a particular event wanders through the seasons.... 12 months of 28 days, lunation equals 336 days. In offices and consalates you can see two calendars hanging up, but the Friday is always on the seventh day.
-The Jewish calendar has 12 lunar months and every so often an extra month is added. When you go-to Israel, you can see their lunar.calendar and the' Gregorian'calendar as well on the walls. Last month the Israeli Government wouldn't even pass a daylight saving act of one hour, because it would interfere with the Sabbath. The same weird argument like the extra . hour of sunlight fading the curtains. So both the Muslim and Jewish cultures with their calendars don't have to tie in with the Great Western Calendar...,, either the old Gregorian or the proposed New World Calendar.
-_What would the Christian churches do? There are so many of them that it is extremely unlikely that they could, or would want to, agree with any- - thing that their rivals would suggest. You may remember the cry "Give us back our. eleven days" when England suddenly adopted the Gregorian calendar. ItF was only because of catholic Europe that Englandaut of spite refused to adopt it earlier, and don't let us forget the fact that it was not until the middle of the 18th century that England adopted January 1st as New Year's Day instead of March 25th.
-,luckily the Pope made things easy a few 'months ago when he brake one
+January, April, July. October
-of the.Te./.1 PgmMandments,.and,quite fortunately, itwas.the one that suits - my argument. I don't know how come our newspapers haverlt noticed it,. anyway you are reading it here for the first time. The Pope, after celebrating-the Sabbath'In-Japaiilow ia'AldSka and-On'to RoMe.for-Lant where hA olp.iausly celebrated the next Sabbath just 6 days later. The International Date Line made him lose a day. Did that concern him? I don't know, of course, and I hope his attempted assassination wasn't retribution from God, for His ways are mysterious at times. So if the Pope can have a 6-day week, his church can have one too or even an 8-day week l The Sabbath is obviously where the local community is celebrating it. This must occur every time an. ordained priest, rabbi, etc. cross from here to America, and without thinking they' fit in with the next community's Sabbath whether it is only . 6-ar-8-days after the previous one. It mustn't be 'boo irreligious to break the Sabbath law or otherwise millions and millions of tourists would be struok.dead when going to church on the wrong day.
+|M|T|W|T|F|S|S|
-The rest of the world would naturally follow the New Calendar. Billions of Chinese, Japanese and Indians have no Sabbath concept, -although in present times. they haire Sundays off from work, and this must be. just ar day of rest introduced from our cultures.
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-There have been many books written on the subject which you can find in your local library,Hdescribing other alternative calendars, reasons for and
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-agpinst. I hope that there are not too many errors in the figures or dates, etc, as this article has been done at one sitting, at work and without any
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-reference books. It is purely an exercise in filling in time.
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-Incidentally, in a science programme recently on the A.B.C. I heard
-that some time this year one second is to be added or substracted at midnight to balance the calendar with modern technology. Imagine, the Earth is out' of balance with the cosmos.
+February, May, August, November
-(Owen Marks - President of the Hastings Parade
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-Bondi Beach Branch of the Calendar Reform Society, Australian Section. Southern Hemisphere Division.)
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-TRAVELLING WITH CHILDREN IN INDIA - PART 5.
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+March, June, September, December
+|M|T|W|T|F|S|S|
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+Each quarter would have the same number of days, the same for each half year and there would be 364 days in the year. The additional day would be squeezed in between the 30th December and the 1st January and be a W (WORLD) day. Every four years an L (LEAP) day would be placed after June 30. Obviously the W day would be a world day to celebrate the new year and the L day, which has to be placed somewhere, either after W day or after June 30, would also be a world-wide national holiday. Or some-such.
+Can you see anything wrong with such a scheme? Of course there is, but it is not insurmountable. At the end of every year there would be an 8-day week and the same for the leap year day every four years, and the Sabbath would fall behind. The only organizations that would be against it in a loud voice, would be those religions that have a Sabbath day to keep holy or to be more accurate, those that have a holy day every 7 days, i.e. only the Jews, Muslims and Christians. Don't laugh or be fazed by numbers. Read on...
+The Muslim calendar in use at present is solely lunar, and that means that a particular event wanders through the seasons.... 12 months of 28 days, lunation equals 336 days. In offices and consulates you can see two calendars hanging up, but the Friday is always on the seventh day.
+The Jewish calendar has 12 lunar months and every so often an extra month is added. When you go to Israel, you can see their lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar as well on the walls. Last month the Israeli Government wouldn't even pass a daylight saving act of one hour, because it would interfere with the Sabbath. The same weird argument like the extra hour of sunlight fading the curtains. So both the Muslim and Jewish cultures with their calendars don't have to tie in with the Great Western Calendar... either the old Gregorian or the proposed New World Calendar.
+What would the Christian churches do? There are so many of them that it is extremely unlikely that they could, or would want to, agree with anything that their rivals would suggest. You may remember the cry "Give us back our eleven days" when England suddenly adopted the Gregorian calendar. It was only because of catholic Europe that England out of spite refused to adopt it earlier, and don't let us forget the fact that it was not until the middle of the 18th century that England adopted January 1st as New Year's Day instead of March 25th.
+Luckily the Pope made things easy a few months ago when he broke one of the Ten Commandments, and quite fortunately, it was the one that suits my argument. I don't know how come our newspapers haven't noticed it, anyway you are reading it here for the first time. The Pope, after celebrating the Sabbath in Japan, flew via Alaska and on to Rome for Lent where he obviously celebrated the next Sabbath just 6 days later. The International Date Line made him lose a day. Did that concern him? I don't know, of course, and I hope his attempted assassination wasn't retribution from God, for His ways are mysterious at times. So if the Pope can have a 6-day week, his church can have one too or even an 8-day week! The Sabbath is obviously where the local community is celebrating it. This must occur every time an ordained priest, rabbi, etc. cross from here to America, and without thinking they fit in with the next community's Sabbath whether it is only 6 of 8 days after the previous one. It mustn't be too irreligious to break the Sabbath law or otherwise millions and millions of tourists would be struck dead when going to church on the wrong day.
+The rest of the world would naturally follow the New Calendar. Billions of Chinese, Japanese and Indians have no Sabbath concept, although in present times they have Sundays off from work, and this must be just a day of rest introduced from our cultures.
+There have been many books written on the subject which you can find in your local library, describing other alternative calendars, reasons for and against. I hope that there are not too many errors in the figures or dates, etc, as this article has been done at one sitting, at work and without any reference books. It is purely an exercise in filling in time.
+Incidentally, in a science programme recently on the A.B.C. I heard that some time this year one second is to be added or substracted at midnight to balance the calendar with modern technology. Imagine, the Earth is out of balance with the cosmos.
+(Owen Marks - President of the Hastings Parade Bondi Beach Branch of the Calendar Reform Society, Australian Section. Southern Hemisphere Division.)
+=====Travelling With Children In India - Part 5.=====
 by Marcia Shappert.
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