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The World Calendar "is probably the ultimate solution to ending the confusion in our national and international system of time reckoning. It represents the labor of many individuals, as well as the best features of all 12-month calendar schemes." -- The Riddle of Time, © 1963 .-- Read more of this excerpt here.



--from http://www.theworldcalendar.org/THE_CALENDAR.pdf


Unaware of current Gregorian calendar complications?
For striking contrast,
Learn how to easily memorize The World Calendar!

 

‘So there we are, with a calendar that has come through many adventures and is still far from perfect. As a matter of fact, a really perfect calendar is impossible. It has to be a compromise, for it attempts to reconcile natural fixed periods, which are not reconcilable. The things to be desired are the greatest accuracy combined with the greatest feasible convenience. We cannot scrap or change our days or our years without altering the motion of the sun or earth—those are immovable obstacles. We could, but do not desire to, change our week; the seven-day week is too deeply imbedded in tradition, religion and convenience. But we can change our month, which is an irrational division of time conforming to neither moon nor sun.’


Present Campaign:
THE WORLD CALENDAR IN 2012
:

 
During the first half of last century, recognition of the need for a user-friendlier successor to the Gregorian calendar prompted world-wide study. It identified The World Calendar as the best probable choice.
A well-documented attempt to make the change followed, but was not completed. In 2010, The World Calendar in 2012 continues to unfold as a multi-level demonstration that the current, nearly unanimous Gregorian calendar, as we know and ignore it, quietly stifles (smothers/chokes) potential.


‘. . . For, in the desired reform, it is not a matter of obtaining the ideal calendar but that which is the most practical, that is to say the one which remedies the depreciatory disadvantages of the present one without disturbing our religious or civil life. The project of The World Calendar Association responds perfectly to these demands; conceived in such a manner that it may be adapted to any race, country or religion, it would certainly prove for our modern world, so enervated, to be an element of order, stability concord, unity and even of religiousness. When the nations agree on the subject, it will be an event of good omen and one which will have constituted, furthermore, the most vast agreement ever passed among the civil and religious authorities of the world.’

 

 


"Under the reform plan, Worldsday will come after Saturday, December 30th, and will be followed by Sunday, January 1st. Since 364 is exactly divisible by 7 while 365 and 366 are not there is no better way to stabilize the calendar so that month-dates will always coordinate with weekdays."

--
From the pamphlet'JEWISH SUPPORT for The World Calendar',
extensive analysis by Daniel Sher

 

Click to view a printable copy of
The World Calendar and
Official Description


The World Calendar Association
encourages all sharing of
The World Calendar
and conversion to it
as early as
1 January 2012.


Some Benefits of
The World Calendar...


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The World Calendar
on Wikipedia


Learn how to memorize
The World Calendar




THINK ABOUT IT:

How can any civilized world achieve world peace while its main calendar battles with everyone who uses it?

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If we can watch news happening live around the world and around other planets within minutes, certainly we can change to a better calendar between now and 2012!

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We hear of On-This-Date anniversaries after a year or hundreds of years, but often minus the day of the week. Without research or extensive computation, that has been lost. Beginning in 2012, at the ?op of the hour? new events gain exacting significance with observances on the same day of the week. It's amazing that we have given that so little thought when making such a big deal over them?

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The same things that make calendar change so formidable also make it absolutely too good to again let pass us by. Calendar affects everybody who uses it and to consider that a better calendar is available offers potential to improve daily living – whatever that concept includes. Calendar reform challenges many beliefs. Some will be put aside and others confirmed. “The only thing to fear is FEAR OF SELF.”

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As 2012 approaches, some are using it to spread their own fears with predictions of doom and destruction. When no such negativity arrives, like in 2000, world end scenarios will simply move out – again. But enough with nebulous! What is out of our control will come to pass and what we’re able to do can happen if we choose. The ‘top of the hour’ recognition of unanimous clock on Earth connects with another anticipation for beyond 2012: that of raised consciousness and increased unity. No other project is so specifically fitting and with more potential gain than calendar reform. Finish what study you need now to take part in letting The World Calendar in 2012 happen on 1 January 2012.
(Posted 28 March 2008)

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TWCA concentrates on conversion to The World Calendar in 2012 so that visualization of and planning towards any date thereafter becomes immediately and consistently easier, with or without a physical version of calendar, eyes open or closed. Simultaneously, with the means to simpler documentation and memories in place, less complicated access to past after 1 January 2012 accumulates day by day.
(Posted 17 September 2008)


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“Grandpa, Daddy said when he was little like me he used miles per gallon to move around. What’s a miles per gallon?” “Oh, what a memory! I’m glad we’re past that, but it was something we did before knowing any better. For fun, since we don’t burn much of anything now, let’s Google MPG.” (Posted 13 December 2008)

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". . .as a people"
(Posted 22 May 2009)

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The World Calendar is accurate and perpetual but TWCA challenges the world to also judge calendar alternatives in terms of ease of application. TWC, like a clock, is simple enough to memorize and use, eyes open or eyes closed, without a physical crutch —printed, electronic or otherwise. We do not forget that the calendar is an accumulation of thoughts about time. As long as our primary calendar hinders its own use — as when we seek or do not have access to the required physical copy needed to plan past next week— we’ll continue to ignore our choice to remain stuck.

Much has changed since the 1950s. Limited reasoning that prevailed during that period will not optimally improve our future, no matter how many times it is used to validate the endless search for a different approach that is better than The World Calendar. Awareness of consciousness has increased along with growing knowledge of the universe. A replacement for the Gregorian calendar should not ignore the extreme advantages of sustainability that a memorizable calendar includes. (Posted 4 March 2010) //
EXPANDED 24 June 2010

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TRADITION
(Posted 9 March 2010)

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MORE ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

   
"Jawaharlal Nehru has said: 'Every step might well be judged according to whether it increases or decreases the element of fear in the world. If there is less fear then there is more reasoned thinking, there is more understanding.' ” --from The Journal of Calendar Reform Vol. 25, Dec. 1955-Jan. 1956, page 190.


TWCA IS STILL WAITING FOR ANSWERS
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21 September 2009

TWCA’s contribution to President-elect Obama’s Citizen’sBriefingBook posted shortly before it closed on 18 Jan. 2009. Hyper-links were not permitted so here it is with links.

 


The World Calendar
can be easily memorized.
Once adopted as the world's primary calendar of choice, daily use will not require finding a reference copy first. Experiencing this convenience when six months of 2006 matched The World Calendar spoke louder than any words about why we need this better calendar.

 

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