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    Posted: 29-Dec-2011 at 10:42
Is It Time to Overhaul the Calendar?
By Stephanie Pappas 

Published December 29, 2011| LiveScience

Forget leap years, months with 28 days and your birthday falling on a different day of the week each year. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland say they have a better way to mark time: a new calendar in which every year is identical to the one before.

Their proposed calendar overhaul — largely unprecedented in the 430 years since Pope Gregory XIII instituted the Gregorian calendar we still use today — would divvy out months and weeks so that every calendar date would always fall on the same day of the week. Christmas, for example, would forever come on a Sunday.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/29/is-it-time-to-overhaul-calendar/?test=faces
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After we "fix" Egyptian history and convert it in other's history,Egyptian calendar could be returned back also!
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Here's an interesting side story about calendars and dates:

Samoa and Tokelau to Skip December 30
Published December 29, 2011
| Associated Press

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/29/samoa-and-tokelau-to-skip-december-30/?test=latestnews
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