This day and this leap year may be the last of all

February 29 remains, to this day, because the Earth's orbit and human calendars are a bit asynchronous, as the Earth completes its orbit around the sun with an orbit length of 584 million miles (about 939.857 million km) in 365 days, 5 hours, 48 ​​minutes, and 46 seconds. Leap days are designed to make up for the extra time.

But if two Johns Hopkins University professors succeed in making their way, this leap year will be the last of its kind, because they will replace the current calendar with a new version.

The proposed calendar
The length of the calendar for Professors Hanky ​​and Henry is 364 days long and is characterized by consistency, as the year always begins for him on Monday, and your birthday will always happen on the same day of the week.

One of the designers of the new version of the calendar, Richard Conn Henry astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, said the calendar would be exactly the same every year.

February will always have 30 days, as in January, April, May, July, August, October and November. The other four months will have 31 days. There will be no leap days in February. Instead we will have every five or six years an extra week at the end, as we can celebrate.

The writer says it is a bold idea and takes into account the spirit of reforms that are taking place on the calendar in the history of mankind. The calendar we are using today has undergone hundreds of years of reforms, as Dictator Julius Caesar redrafted a 365-day calendar for the Roman Republic 46 years before the birth of Christ, and the Egyptians added a leap day to it.

That calendar was more accurate than previous calendars, but it was not complete, as each year it adds 11 minutes and 14 seconds.

Gregory calendar
Over the centuries, these additional minutes caused the seasonal location of the planet and the calendar to diverge, and the Easter holiday went away from the spring equinox, and approached the summer. Pope Gregory XIII was very saddened and changed the calendar by an official decision, indicating his duty to make this change.

To reset the holiday days, the Pope canceled 10 days. The day after Thursday became in Italy, Spain and other European countries October 4, 1582, on Friday October 15. To prevent this erosion from happening again, the Pope maintained the leap year, but reduced its frequency.

According to the Gregorian calendar, the year that is divisible by 100 must be divisible by 400 and will be considered a leap year (in other words, 1900 was not a leap year, but 2000 leaps). This calendar also set February 29 as a leap day.

Outside of Roman Catholic countries in Europe, the world has been slow to adopt this new calendar. Britain and its colonies did not follow the Gregorian Gregorian calendar until 1752.

Princeton University professor of classical science, Dennis Finney, had told the Washington Post that riots had taken place in Britain that year, as people demanded that the 11 days be returned to them.

Henry says that the Gregorian calendar was developed by astronomers and they are people who know what they were doing, and it is a very accurate evaluation, but the problem is that people do not need a surprisingly accurate evaluation, but they need an appropriate evaluation to arrange their lives.

Henry asked his colleague Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke to calculate the economic implications of the new version of the calendar.

Benefits of the new calendar
Hankey estimated that the initial costs would be lower than the costs of the reset in 2000, which amounted to about $ 100 billion in the United States, adding that the benefits, from not having to reproduce calendars each year, would offset the cost mentioned.

Henry said that having a date on the same day of the week each year removes deficiencies in the planning and scheduling of the "annoying" Gregorian calendar and, often, in the Gregorian calendar, companies add a week to their financial periods.

Hanke said that Apple did so in the first quarter of 2012, and announced "very good and strong earnings", commenting that it is self-evident that this happened because they had an additional week of revenue.

A year later, the first quarter of 2013 for Apple seemed relatively weak because it lacked the benefit of an additional week, Hankey said, and the company's shares fell, adding that their calendar solves this problem, because companies will work continuously considering that the quarter is equal to 91 days.

Under the Henry-Hanke Calendar, the main federal holidays will be for the United States on Monday, except Independence and Thanksgiving. Christmas will be forever on Sunday.

And Hankey said, "Federal holidays will not cut our week because they happen sometimes on Wednesday or Tuesday, and that will save a lot of money, and the accounts according to the new calendar indicate avoiding losing about $ 575 per person, because you will get a long weekend."