For those of you who value simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

A moon cycle from full moon to new moon and back to full again takes a little more than 28 days, life on Earth has evolved in line with this natural cycle and the lunar cycle is common in nature. 28 days is exactly 4 weeks; that is 20 working days and 4 weekends.

Лунный месяц состоит примерно из 28 дней. В дикой природе существует большое количество явлений, зависящих от луны и проходящих в соответствии с лунным циклом. 28 дней - это ровно 4 недели, - то есть 20 рабочих дней и 8 выходных.

This site proposes that we change our calendar to 13 months of exactly 28 days each for a total of 13*28=364 days and make the extra day a new years day holiday!
New years day would not have a date or day of the week name (Mon, Tues....)
A leap year could have 2 such holidays :)

Этот сайт предлагает поменять наш обычный календарь на новый, в котором 13 месяцев по 28 дней (13*28=364). А последний оставшийся один или два дня можно считать новогодними праздниками без даты и названия (пон, вт...) Это нужно для того, чтобы, независимо от месяца, 1-е число всегда было понедельником.

For more information on the history of our calendar please visit http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-history.html

Reasons against

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The system would be too complicated and costly to implement
(Not really, you would give everyone plenty of advanced notice to update computers and digital watches, mobile phones and such)

When would my birthday be in the new Calendar?
(you could calculate the day of the year and then fix it to the new calendar, and it would always be on the same day of the week :)

You would have to change everyones passports and legal documents!
(Not neccessary, you could refer to dates as OC [Old Calendar] and NC [new Calendar], so if my birthday is 25 Feb OC then that would be the 56th day of the year and that would make it 28 Feb NC)

Who would decide what to call the 13th month?
(Oncember perhaps?)

Financial Quarters?
(first Quarter would be exactly 3 months and 1 week, second quarter after 6 months and 2 weeks and third 9 months and 3 weeks, the number of weeks tells you which quarter :)

Arguments For

Please add your comments if you have any other ideas

Many people get paid for the number of days they work in any particular month, wouldn't it be easier if every month you worked exactly 20 days and so received the same salary each month?

It's easier for kids at school to learn

Easier to plan for those DAYs of the month!!!

Every month could start with a Monday and end on a Sunday, easier to make plans for the weekends

Calendars wouldn't need to change from year to year

It would simplify some accounting systems

You could make public holidays coincide with Mondays and Fridays so that people would have more long weekends, it would make life more predictable, and easier to plan time away

Under this calendar a womans 40 week pregnancy lasts a nice round 10 months