Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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Wish to have a More Exact Calendar? Many people have wished to have a more permanent calendar, Where the dates would be on the same day, forever! Holiday dates and scheduling problems Would be fixed in an organized manner. Christmas and New Year's Day would always be on a Monday, While the Fourth of July would always be on a Thursday. One feature would be having every six years, A leap week, rather than a leap day. The extra seven days would occur at the end of that December, Which, as leap day attempts to do, would 'eliminate calendar drift'. In addition, the year would be divided into four three-month quarters. The first two months of each quarter would be comprised of 30 days, While the third month of that quarter would have 31 days. And again, it is claimed this would regularize things To be easier and less costly. The name of the calendar to accomplish all this Is the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar. In reality, though, our present-day calendar may be the one, Into which we are locked. Frank Maurer 29 February 2024 1520 Hours.