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The Tellus Calendar: A Metric and Perennial Proposal for Calendar Reform

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  • Rindborg, Gabriel V

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Though calendar reform has fallen out of fashion in the early 21st century, the Gregorian Calendar is still a problematic timekeeping system that would benefit from adjustment or outright replacement. A number of reforms have been suggested since its implementation. Some of these, I argue, were too radical or not beneficial enough to warrant widespread adoption. I suggest instead a 12-month perennial calendar based on the French Republican Calendar (FRC), with 10-day weeks and three-week months. This, in my view, would bring enough benefit to warrant change, while also not shifting too many frames of reference at once. It would also be devoid of the social-political complexities which prematurely killed the FRC. In essence, it would be the as close to a metric calendar that could realistically be adopted in the near future. I term it the Tellus Calendar.

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  • Rindborg, Gabriel V, 2021. "The Tellus Calendar: A Metric and Perennial Proposal for Calendar Reform," SocArXiv e4w5a, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:e4w5a
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/e4w5a
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