Hanke-Henry Calendar Makes Date Finally Equal To Day

Richard Conn Henry, a Johns Hopkins University astronomer is all set to replace the Gregorian calendar with something of his own, which he claims is more standardized and easy to follow. Designed by Henry himself along with Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of Engineering, this alternate calendar is offically called the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar. Henry's calendar is a refined version of  Bob McClenon’s Reformed Weekly Calendar which was introduced in 1996. McClenon established the four-quarter, 30-30-31 pattern to the year while Henry added the extra week instead.

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According to this new calendar concept, there would be eight months having 30 days with every third month having 31 days. A week would be added now and then to cover up the leftover time. Here's the upside, the years in Hanke-Henry calendar proceed with clockwork regularity, which means no re-scheduling of days, as each day would occupy the same position as it had the previous year, following exact same pattern in the next. If this 364-day calendar is adopted from 2012, then Christmas and New Year's would eternally fall on a Sunday.

The inspiration behind this is to avoid the irregularity that comes with the Gregorian calendar. "Our plan offers a stable calendar that is absolutely identical from year to year and which allows the permanent, rational planning of annual activities, from school to work holidays," says Henry. Not just the calendar, to completely eradicate irrationality with respect to time, Henry suggests that all the world’s clocks be set to Universal Time, or Greenwich Mean Time. Time zones would vanish, as would Daylight Saving Time, allowing complete harmonization of time across the globe.

That makes my birthday forever a Saturday. How nice!

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