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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[OCTOBER, 1924
Sunday
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Friday .. .. .. .. .. 4 11 18 25 Saturday .
.. 5 12 19 26 Bunday .. .. .. .. . 6 13 20 27 Monday ..
. . 7 14 21 28 (TW) FOUR CALENDAR MONTHS OF 31 DAYS BEGINNING WITH THURSDAY
MARCH, JUNE, SEPTEMBER, DECEMBER. Thursday
.. 1 8 15 22 29 Friday ..
.. 2 9 16 23 30 Saturday
:. 3 10 17 24 31
4 11 18 25 Monday .. ..
.. 5 12 19 26 Tuesday ..
... 6 13 20 27 Wednesday .. .. .. .. 7 14 21 28 It will be perceived that each year will thus begin on the same day of the week, Sunday, and that therefore the Calendar goes on perpetually. Another way of presenting this Culondar--that adopted by Fr. G. Nahapetian---s shown on Table I attached. From Table I It will be seen that the Four Quarters of the Year follow each other : January, February, March ; April, May, June ; July, August, September ; October, November, December. Also the months of each Quarter commence regularly in order with Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. It is in fact & much easier Calendar to carry in the head than the existing one, but not so easy iks the Lumar-Solar Calendar.
Other advantages also follow on it : Easter Sunday would automatically fall on 15th April and Christmas Day on Sunday, 25th December, Boxing Day on Monday, 26th December. Leap Year's Day would always follow, as in the case of the Lunar-Solar Year, between Saturday, 31st December, and Sunday, 1st January, and as it would be a natural dies non, not counted in any week, it would also be & natural holiday, thus giving two holidays running. Sanctuary Day would fall between Saturday, 31st September, and Sunday, 1st October, giving also two holidays running. 1. To follow the same line in developing the idea of the Solar Calendar, as that adopted for the idea of the Lanar-Solar Calendar, it may be observed that the changes in the existing Calendar involved in it would nover be more than a day or so, and no new month with an unfamiliar name would be necessary. But the same difficulty as to the intercalary days would arise in exactly the same way.
As regards the public and coolesiastical holidays. Good Friday would always fall on 13th April, Easter Sunday on 15th April, and Easter Monday on 10th April. Lant would always commence on Wednesday, 7th March, Whitsunday on 4th June, Whitmonday on 6th June, Bank Holiday on Monday, 30th July or 7th August, Christmas Day on Sunday, 25th December, Boxing Day on Monday, 26th December. Sanctuary Day would fall on 30th Angust. The annual holiday months would not be changed, and there would be only a slight change of a day or so in the actual fall of sporting meetings and dates and clono sonsone. But the 12th August would fall on a Saturday, the 1st September on a Thursday, and the 1st October on a Sunday. Birthdays and other anniversaries would not practically change, which would be a great advantage.
In legal and commercial life there would not be much change necessary, and Quarter Days would fall regularly : e.g., Lady Day would always fall on Wednesday, 21st March, Midsummer Day on Wednesday, 21st June, Michaelmas Day on Thursday, 29th September, and Christmas Day on Sunday, 26th December. New Year's Day would always fall on
Sanday.
