Talk:Pax Calendar

This article was nominated for deletion on Feb 27, 2007. The result of the discussion was Keep.

What would be interesting

What I would find interesting is the answers to the following questions.

Why did he call the leap week Pax?
Why did he call the extra month Columbus?
Why did he decide to put it between November and December?

Okay, perhaps he liked Christopher Columbus or perhaps just liked America and perhaps he liked Latin and liked peace ... that would be understandable. By why between November and December? This is an odd place. I wonder whether anyone knows or whether he took the answers to these questions to his grave with him. Jimp 07:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

These are excellent questions. I suspect he did take them to the grave, but maybe he explained them somewhere in his writings (now probably lost.) The first and second tend to explain themselves - he seems to have been attracted to, or supported, peace; and thought Columbus should be honored. I doubt a calendar reformer today hoping for worldwide adoption of the calendar would seek to honor Columbus - who is controversial and has relevance only for the Western Hemisphere. However, the "Peace" angle would sell to many people. Nhprman ^UserLists 15:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Columba, in Italian, means "dove", and the white dove has always been associated to peace, you know, maybe that was his idea. However, if he wanted this callendar to be historically accurate, the month #13 should be called Mercedonius and be added between February and March, just as the Romans did. If all the other 12 months keep rougly the original Latin/Roman names (January to December), then it would just make sense if the month #13 was an old Roman month too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.25.52.75 (talk) 16:12, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comte

Should be mentioned that this is actually a fairly minor revision to Auguste Comte's old Positivist calendar of almost a century earlier; I'm adding a "see also" link for now. AnonMoos (talk) 17:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually the International fixed calendar is much more similar in having the same names for the months and no names for the days of months. Also the modifying which days (not dates) are new year days could be seen to be a major revision. I'll change the entry in "See Also" to the more similar IFC and remark about the similar month structure. Karl (talk) 09:15, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Comte invented it first, but it's true that the Fixed calendar may have been a more immediate influence (wasn't aware of that)... AnonMoos (talk) 18:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese language link

The Japanse langage link [1] appears to be about the 13-month calendar of Lloydine Arguelles rather than the Pax calendar. If so, it is an incorrect link and so should be deleted.

Confusing tables

I don't understand the tables. This may be due to the fact that the axes are not labelled. If someone who understands the tables could fix this, that would be wonderful. -- TimNelson (talk) 04:08, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to the new year tables? I thought these would be self explanatory. The date of the new year is to the left of the year. Karl (talk) 11:35, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I figured out my confusion; dates in bold are Sundays! I thought they were trying to indicate some correspondence with Christmas, and was confused. I've expanded the explanation of the tables; HTH, -- TimNelson (talk) 05:28, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good explanation you added. Karl (talk) 11:46, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT TEXT

The common year is divided into 13 months of 28 days each, whose names are the same as in the Gregorian calendar, except that a month called Columbus occurs between November and December. The first day of every week, month and year would be Sunday.

Unlike other perennial calendar reform proposals, such as the International Fixed Calendar and the World Calendar, it preserves the 7-day week by periodically intercalating an extra seven days to a common year of 52 weeks (364 days). In leap years, a one-week month called Pax would be inserted after Columbus.

To get the same mean year as the Gregorian Calendar this leap week is added to 71 of the 400 years in the cycle. The years with leap week are years whose last two digits are a number that is divisible by six (including 00) or 99: however, if a year number ending in 00 is divisible by 400, then Pax is cancelled.

Bold text indicates mistakes.

Mistake #1: 28x13=364. A year has 365, sometimes 366 days.

Mistake #2: Not the solution to the problem. The solution is by adding an extra day to some weeks.

Mistake #3: The difference of 28 and 7 is too large. Considered illegal.

Mistake #4: Forget this.

Let's hope somebody understands this. And don't delete this text. 2404:3C00:502F:4C80:55D:7EA:DA89:E90A (talk) 04:43, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]