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The Symmetry454 Curricular Calendar

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Symmetry454 Calendar Ever wonder what it would be like to use the same calendar year after year nonstop? How great would it be to continuously have the same dates for every holiday year by year? The Symnnetry454 Calendar that’s being planned to replace the Gregorian calendar can establish all that! Soon, Friday the 13th won’t be a day of bad luck for anyone very again. The Symmetry454 calendar is proposed by Dr. Irv Bromberg, who always wondered how we could get rid of our “yearly” calendars and instead have a “permanent” calendar. In this solar calendar, every year contains the same days, on the same time in the week, in the same month. Every year and every month start on a Monday and end on a Sunday, following a simple 454-month/quarter …show more content…

The moon or the stars do not play a role in this calendar. Since the March equinox (mean astronomical northward equinoctial year) is slowly drifting towards earlier dates in March while the Earth’s revolutions and rotations, especially the precession of the equinoxes, are slowly changing the tilt of Earth’s axis, the rate of the equinox drift will increase in the years to come. In order to address this problem, and align the Sun and the Earth’s orbits, the Symmetry454 calendar has a simple 293-year cycle with 52 leap weeks, resulting in the proper alignment for the next 4000 years in respect to the March equinox, the Sun, and the Earth. This symmetrical leap rule of the 293-year leap cycle results in long-term symmetry to the calendar, allowing the precise timing of the Northward equinox to consistently fall in the first year of every 293-year cycle. Within each repeating leap cycle, the same set of years are the “leap year” years. Having 52 weeks in a regular year allows for this calendar to be perpetual, meaning it starts on the same weekday every year, as well as preserving the traditional 7-day week cycle. The way that this is accomplished by this calendar is to include a leap week at the end of every 5th or 6th year, during the month of December. This leap week insures that day and week number will stay constant within the years. This leap also ensures that the Orbit of the sun and Earth stay relatively fixed and synchronized with the seasons over many centuries. The Epoch of this calendar is the same date as that of the Gregorian calendar, falling on Monday, January 1 of the year 1 AD. Lastly, because no Friday will fall on the 13th of a month in the whole year, there’s no more bad luck for

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