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Proposed calendar would make it same exact day, next year

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Each year, Jan. 1 falls on a different day of the week, and the entire following year shifts accordingly. Schools, sports teams, businesses and banks spend many hours and millions of dollars calculating on what day of the week certain dates will fall, to schedule holidays and set interest rates... Two professors have proposed a calendar in which each 12-month period is exactly as the year before, on into perpetuity.

 

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