From Fred Truter
Eric Donald writes about his ingenious proposal to reform the Gregorian calendar (15 June, p 47).
I think every schoolchild wonders about the lack of logic and inconsistencies when they are taught the months of the year and the number of days in each. Reforming the calendar to make it simpler to teach is several centuries overdue.
However, if you make the calendar perpetual (days of the week remain the same from one year to the next) then you have to label 1 January “New Year’s Day” rather than any particular day of the week from Monday to Sunday, and also label 29 February “Leap Day”.
After doing this, you have to ask: “Why must the leap day be in slot 60?” It would be more appropriate to have it as 32 December.
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