Standard Seasons

Sydney Morning Herald

Monday February 5, 1990

SIR: While we are fiddling with the calendar to make Australia Day fall on a day to suit everybody, why not bring in a fixed-annual-date calender with 52 weeks of Mondays to Sundays plus one day with its own name like Joday or Paulday. In this way, dates would fall on the same day every year and we would avoid having to make special adjustments when Christmas falls on a Sunday and cuts out another sacred holiday.

Every four years we could have another special day with its own name, Leap Year Day, perhaps. Admittedly, many Hong Kong printers would go broke, having no market for yearly renewals of calendars, diaries, planners, programs, timetables etc, but think of the savings to other businesses, schools, hospitals and just ordinary people. Some government departments could be eliminated all together.

What say we sell the idea worldwide for commencement on, say, Bobday, January 1, 2000?

John P. Bunce,

Oxford Street,

January 31 Mittagong.