Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-23 | Page 7 | New Calendar Has Only 364 Days for One Year

NEW CALENDAR HAS ONLY ?M DAYS FOR ONE YEAR Special Cable to Tho Tribune l.ON'IDON, April 22. A radical, novel and interesting change of tho calondar is under consideration In parliament. Tho author Is Robert Pcarco, who proposed to push the clock on, one hour so that people peo-ple might have more daylight. Ills now scheme Is to make 3G4 days constitute n year and nlso to make .Easter .Eas-ter a stationary or fixed holiday. The governments of European countries have received an Invitation from tho Swiss government to take part ln nn international in-ternational diplomatic conference on the stibjoct of fixing Easter and generally ro-formlng ro-formlng tho calendur. There Is now before tho house of commons com-mons a calendar reform bill, designed to serve the purpose. This bill proposes to adjust the days of the week and of tho month and fix holidays depending upon Easter. With this view the first day of the year would bo :i holiday, but It would not he a. day of tho woek or of lhi month or quarter. This lonvcts for tho rest of tho year 364 days, which divide exactly Into four equal quarters of ninety-one. days each, and into tlfty-two weeks Each quarter would contain thlrtcon weeks, divided into two montho of thirty days each and one of thirty-one days. Tho ordinary quarter days would not be Interfered with. EaBtor Sunday and all tho movable feasts, fasts and dates dopondont upon It would be llxod so as to fall regularly on tho samo day of the samo month, as well as on tho same day of tho week. April 14 would always be EaMor Sunday Christmas day, December 25, would al-waya al-waya be 'On a Monday. To provldo for leap year one othor holiday, called Leap Year day, would bo inserted between Juno 31 and July 1.