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The Rexian Calendar
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Everyone knows how the Gregorian calendar works - introduced by Pope Gregory XIII on the 24th of February, 1582. But, the problem with this system is that it was built apon the pre-existing Julian Calendar which had been passed down from the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. This manefestation of celestial mechanics was fundamentally flawed as it was based on inaccurate astronomical observations dating to before the Common Era.
While technically accurate, it has failed to observe a basic human desire, that being the desire of consistency, It is no wonder that young children see this calculation of dates and stare glassy-eyed with incomprehension that such a system could have ever been brought into being.
Therefore, the International Church of Solipsology proposes a new and more comprehensible amendment to the Gregorian calendar and that it should pass as the commonly accepted eye to our perceptions of what a year should be.
The Gregorian calendar divides the year (with regard the the number of days) thusly:
January 31
February 28 (+1)
March 31
April 30
May 31
June 30
July 31
August 31
September 30
October 31
November 30
December 31
The inaccuracies of the Earth's orbit makes the leap year a necessary inconvenience. The International Church of Solipsology does not chose to dispute this fact (and acknowledges, as dictated by our Islamic brothers, that the adaptation of a lunar calendar does make the inconvenience less extreme) so it is decided that this necessity remain in tact.
The number of days in the average Solar calendar year is 365 (leap years excluded). Reducing this number to the nearest decimal gives us 360. 360 is a very convenient number as it can nicely be divided by 12 (a traditional Gregorian number) to 30 - 30 days in every month.
However, there are still 5 days to be accounted for (in a non-leap year). The Gregorian calendar chooses to divide these 5 days in a quite arbitrary manner. In fact, the Gregorian calendar robs February of two days in order to accommodate two other months. If one considers equity amongst the months then February deserves its two extra days which, if one suggests that each 30 day month should alternate with each 31 day month, would be a more logically consistent division. Currently, the month of August throws the whole schema out of kilter.
Given this proposition: that 30 day months should alternate with 31 day months for a more balanced view of the solar calendar, then Pope Gregory's view is throw completely askew. But 360 is such a convenient number for a clean division (by 12 as even Julius Caesar recognised) - and that the number of surplus days is so close to a division of 12 (as in the 12 months; 5 instead of 6) - then it can only be reasonable that the following rules apply:
- That each year is divided into 12 months (as has been the tradition since Julius Caesar)
- That each month is divided into the number of days that can equally be divided by the number of months in the year.
- That the surplus number of days be divided equitably amongst the number of months as closely as possible over the span of a year.
- That the leap year day be allocated to the month that is short-changed by the indivisible number that is the number of surplus days in a year.
Therefore, that the calendar be divided thusly:
January 31
February 30
March 31
April 30
May 31
June 30
July 31
August 30
September 31
October 30
November 30 (+1)
December 30
Furthermore, by an ancient historical arbitrary allocation, the current date of the new year, the 1st of January, be reallocated to a concrete celestial landmark, being the Winter Solstice in the Northern hemisphere and the Summer Solstice in the Southern hemisphere. Therefore, the first day of the Rexian calendar should fall on the current Gregorian date of the 21st of December and that all other celebratory dates (regardless of religious belief) should fall on their equivalent dates according to the Rexian calendar. |
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