Don’t lose your birthday!

in the early morning on Monday, the 3rd of January 2005 by Chad

Some whacko physics professor has created a new calendar so the same date always falls on the same day. So, for example, July 4th is always a Wednesday. Why would someone do something this silly? Because he is lazy!

“For many years, I’ve had to make up a new schedule to tell my class when homework is due,” says Dick Henry, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US. “Here I am putting all this totally unnecessary work in and I decided I better do something about it.”

So Henry designed a calendar that uses 364 days, which breaks down evenly into 52 weeks. In his so called “Calendar-and-Time” (C&T) plan, each month contains 30 or 31 days. He decided on each month’s length by forbidding the new calendar to differ from the old one by more than five days and by setting Christmas Day, 25 December, to always fall on a Sunday.

No way they’re stealing ten days from my life!