From: mauricef...@ix.netcom.com (Maurice Fox)
Subject: Re: Leap years, yet again
Date: 2000/03/05
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On Thu, 1 Jan 1970 02:59:59, "Samuel W. Heywood" 
<samuel_heyw...@subdimension.com> wrote:

> On 4 Mar 2000, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>  
> > Is there any official body with authority over the calendar?
> 
> No, there is not an internationally accepted official body with authority
> over the calendar.  The calendar one is to accept will depend upon his
> religion and nationality.  For example, if you are a good Roman Catholic,
> you will accept the proclamations of The Vatican on this issue.  If you
> are a member of the Church of England, or if you are a good Buddist, or
> if you are a good Moslem, then you will accept as authoritative whatever 
> is the official decree of your religion.  If you have no religion, or if
> you refuse to accept what your government says on this matter, then you
> are free to invent your own calendar.

Which a lot of folks have done.  Years ago I was in grad school and 
went to a professor/student cookout somewhere on Foxhall Road in 
Washington, DC.  The wall of the back yard was a brick, stone, and 
concrete depiction of someone's proposed new calendar with uniform 
length months and some kind of scheme for catching up with the odd 
days at the end of year.  Unfortunately, I have lost the address, and 
don't have the nerve to walk up Foxhall road making uninvited 
inspections of people's back yards.

Maurice Fox
> 
> Sam Heywood
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