NormalDate 1.2 released

[Brandon Craig Rhodes]

"Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> writes:

> All calendars are ridiculous. It should be very simple ...
> 
> 13 x 28 day (4 week) months = 364 days.
> 
> 1 "extra" day (new year?)
> 1 additional day in leap years.
> 
> IIRC this is the system that the shire hobbits used.

Not quite; the Shire calendar involved:

        12 months of 30 days = 360 days
        2 days of Yule (between December and January)
        3 days of Lithe (between June and July)
        + the Overlithe, added to the Lithedays in leap-years

More details and a rather attractive chart can be found at:

        http://www.shire-reckoning.com/calendar.html

> Why was this simple system never adopted?

Habit.

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Brandon Craig Rhodes                         http://www.rhodesmill.org/brandon
Georgia Tech Research Institute                         brandon at rhodesmill.org