From a fascinating post on Jewish in a Gentile World:
Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, has proposed a revision to the Gregorian calendar used by most of the Western world for the last 400 years. Under his proposed calendar, which he calls the C&T calendar, the length of the year would be adjusted so that every day falls on the same day of the week every year. A sort of "leap week" would be added between June and July every five or six years to keep the calendar in sync with the solar year.Go read the whole thing. I'd be interested to hear what everyone thinks.Of course, none of this has any effect on the Jewish calendar, which has been confusing gentiles for more than two millennia. Our calendar is based on rules from the Creator given to us in oral and written Torah, so we can't change it and we will continue to confuse you for the foreseeable future.
Interesting topic as ALL of your posts are. "That Calendar Concept" is a good idea{maybe} but it will never fly. Historians would never sleep and you and I would never know what date it is really... just for the convenience of having 28 days in a month and even weeks. Fooie/on it, or is it "fooy".. perhaps it's chop sooie. I would be much more interested in learning about the Jewish Calendar than instigating a convenient form for my wall. Just my thoughts cause you asked :-}
Posted by: Sallie at January 19, 2005 01:54 PMWe've been confusing gentiles for 5000 years. It's been a good run, I say keep going!
Posted by: Mark at January 19, 2005 02:11 PMYou don't have to have someone else nominate you, you can nominate yourself! This is a great post to nominate. Send it to Willow Tree yourself!
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