On 20/04/2017 3:02 PM, rickman wrote:
> On 4/19/2017 10:06 AM, Dr J R Stockton wrote:
>> In comp.sys.raspberry-pi message , Tue, 18
>> Apr 2017 21:39:42, druck  posted:
>>
>>> On 17/04/2017 23:39, Dr J R Stockton wrote:
>>>> If the earth's rotation rate remains sufficiently constant, about 3300
>>>> years, as I recall; but it would be better to change from the Gregorian
>>>> Calendar to having, in years divisible by 4 but not by 128, an extra
>>>> day, at the end of December.
>>>
>>> If any month gets another extra day, it's February again, seeing that
>>> it was robbed by both Julius and Augustus.
>>
>> One would change the months January to November to be 30 days & 31 days
>> alternately, with the rest of the 365.2425 days being in December, which
>> would be usually 30 days and sometimes Leap to 31 days.  It would be
>> easy to simplify Zeller's Congruence to do that.
>
> Sorry, February is cold and dark and we can use a couple of days less of
> it.

What a parochial, nth-hemisphere view. Feb is perfect swimming weather
here - bring on the extra days!

>
> Changing the days in the months does nothing to sort out leap years.
>

Scatter a few 'Sols' during the year to eat up the 0.2425 days?

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Cheers,
Chris.

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