More thoughts about a 13-month year: If each month had only
28 days, some holidays wouldn’t fall on the same days they do now. New Year’s
Eve, for instance would happen on the 28th of the month – either December or
March, depending on which came at the end of the year. Thanksgiving would
always be Thursday, November 25. Valentines Day would always be a Sunday, like
Mother’s and Father’s Days. I’ve read the Kodak company used a 13-month
calendar from 1924 to 1989. Their extra month was called Sol, and it came
between June and July. Leap day, when it happened, was December 29, and it was
an extra weekend day. For years, George Eastman (Kodak’s founder) tried to
promote worldwide acceptance but was unsuccessful. I’m not awfully surprised. We’ve
been trying for ages to do away with Daylight Saving Time; something absolutely
EVERYONE hates. Yet here we are, still adjusting all our clocks twice a year.
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