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The World Calendar in 2012
(4 November 2006 draft)

The purpose of this page has always been to detail the "competition" even though the "competition" rarely if ever acknowledges The World Calendar. By ceasing to any longer be an open ended link to nowhere, "DISTRACTIONS" remains UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

Two other main types of calendars that have existed for consideration are variations of the 13-month version and the leap-week version. Worldwide calendar reform study early last century included them, but resulted in a more favorable overall attitude towards The World Calendar.

The 13-month calendar tends to cause more problems than it fixes. Quite significantly, it effectively destroys quarters. All versions also always utilize the 365th day without a weekday designation (called Worlds Day and Leap Year Day in The World Calendar), which tends to emphasize the mathematical solution that this feature brings to calendar reform. Although The World Calendar closely maintains Gregorian calendar structure to achieve added benefits, 13-month calendars must also overcome the severe social and mechanical limitations to acceptance that the extra month provides. Criteria for any calendar reform includes a likelihood of acceptance or the reform simply does not occur. Any serious consideration of 13-month calendars is a distraction to successful calendar reform.

The leap week calendar avoids the 365th day without a weekday designation (Worlds Day and Leap Year Day in The World Calendar) at the expense of less calendar accuracy overall. Proponents claim more likelihood of acceptance by avoiding the intercalary days. This builds on misunderstandings about this repeatable feature and replaces it with a calendar that cannot be completely memorized: Leap years occur every five or six years. Each leap-week calendar year uses months that vary enough from the Greorian calendar to suggest difficulty in overall acceptance. All leap-week calendars "save" the 365th day each year until seven accumulate into a week and that week is then inserted into the year. The accuracy is similar to a stopped clock, which is completely accurate twice a day.

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