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Sunday. Thus, immediate agreement would have enabled the reform to begin in 1939, since both the IFC and WC were perpetual calendars which fixed the date to the day of the week. Both started the year on Sunday, and both would have had to wait until 1950 for the next opportunity to begin with a type 1 year. |
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World War II had a different plan for improving the lot of humanity, however. The League of Nations was dissolved in its aftermath, and its successor, the United Nations, was gripped in the politics of the Cold War, in which the international cooperation for such a proposal was impossible. By the time that calendar reform might have been politically feasible again, computers had permeated large business organizations and rendered the entire question irrelevant. |
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The IFC did not survive the 1930s. The League quietly closed its doors in 1937. No successor 13-month calendar has gained any significant support since that time. |
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There are a good number of rational reasons for rejecting this calendar. The best reason, however, is its redolent aura of relentlessly technoid Art Deco slickness. William Gibson, in his marvelous story, "The Gernsback Continuum" (Burning Chrome, p. 33), applies the phrase "sinister fruitiness" to certain products of the 1930s era. If Ming the Merciless were to design a calendar, it would probably bear a striking resemblance to the IFC. |
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See the SCDTL text on the CD for the discussion of the code. |
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9.12.3
The World Calendar |
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The World Calendar, abbreviated as WC in this section, was a calendar proposed during the early 20th century as a reform to the Gregorian calendar. |
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As a matter of notation, the definite article is included as part of the title of this calendar, so that the calendar properly is referred to as The World Calendar. In this work, no other "world calendar" is discussed. The abbreviation WC, and no other, is used for this calendar in conformity with the SCDTL standard providing for two-character abbreviations for all calendars discussed. |
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The WC is essentially a modification of the Gregorian calendar and introduces certain standardizations for the purposes of business interests. |
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9.12.3.1.1
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The WC day is the same as the Gregorian day. The WC uses the standard Western week of seven days. In fact, the WC emphasizes the week unit at the expense of the month unit, although the primacy of the week unit within the year is purchased at the price of destroying its utility outside the confines of a single calendar year. |
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