Two professors from Johns Hopkins University have created a new calendar that gets rid of the leap year and makes other holidays during the year permanently fixed.
Feb. 29th exists because Earth’s orbit and human calendars are slightly out of sync. Leap days are designed to compensate for the excess time.The planet completes its 584-million-mile loop around the sun in 365 days — plus 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds.
Enters the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar...it is 364 days long. It is consistent: The year always begins on a Monday. Your birthday always falls on the same day of the week. But that's not it.
- February would always have 30 days, as would January, April, May, July, August, October and November.
- The other four months would have 31 days.
- There would be no February leap days. Instead, “every five or six years,” Henry said, “we’ll have an extra week at the end when you can party.”
- Major U.S. federal holidays, except for Independence Day (and Thanksgiving), fall on a Monday.
- Christmas would be on a Sunday
Astronomer, Richard Conn Henry, and economist, Steve H. Hanke, have already drafted an executive order for Trump to sign.
He predicted the states would follow suit after the federal government, then businesses and, ultimately, the world.
Source:Washington Post
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