The World Calendar is a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar created by Elisabeth Achelis of Brooklyn, New York in 1930. == Features == The World Calendar is a 12-month, perennial calendar with equal quarters. Each quarter begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday.
In leap years, a second "intercalary day" follows Saturday, 30 June. Elisabeth Achelis founded The World Calendar Association (TWCA) in 1930 with the goal of worldwide adoption of the World Calendar.
Throughout the 1930s, support for the concept grew in the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations.
Achelis started the Journal of Calendar Reform in 1931, publishing it for twenty-five years, and wrote five books THE CALENDAR FOR EVERYBODY by Elisabeth Achelis (G.P.
Putnam's Sons, 1943); THE CALENDAR FOR THE MODERN AGE by Elisabeth Achelis (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1951); OF TIME AND THE CALENDAR by Elisabeth Achelis (Hermitage House Inc., New York and George J.
Putnam's Sons, 1943); THE CALENDAR FOR THE MODERN AGE by Elisabeth Achelis (Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1951); OF TIME AND THE CALENDAR by Elisabeth Achelis (Hermitage House Inc., New York and George J.
McLeod, LTD., Toronto, Canada, 1955); Autobiography BE NOT SILENT by Elisabeth Achelis (Pageant Press, Inc., 1961) on the calendar concept. Following World War II, Achelis solicited worldwide support for the World Calendar.
At the United Nations in 1955, the United States significantly delayed universal adoption by withholding support "unless such a reform were favoured by a substantial majority of the citizens of the United States acting through their representatives in the Congress of the United States." Also, Achelis wrote in 1955 (JCR Vol.
Because of this I have been prevented from doing in my own country that which I have been urging all other Affiliates to do in theirs." By 1956, she dissolved The World Calendar Association, Incorporated.
McLeod, LTD., Toronto, Canada, 1955); Autobiography BE NOT SILENT by Elisabeth Achelis (Pageant Press, Inc., 1961) on the calendar concept. Following World War II, Achelis solicited worldwide support for the World Calendar.
Kalkstein, who is related to Achelis, and who provided the Association's first official website during her 2000–2004 tenure.
The association reorganised in 2005 as The World Calendar Association, International.
It was last active on 2013 as it had resumed efforts towards adoption of the World Calendar in 2017 and 2023.
It was last active on 2013 as it had resumed efforts towards adoption of the World Calendar in 2017 and 2023.
The World Calendar Association's last director was Wayne Edward Richardson of Ellinwood, Kansas who passed away on May 29, 2020. == Reception == === Benefits === As with other calendar reform proposals, supporters point out several benefits to the World Calendar over the current Gregorian calendar. Proponents refer to its simple structure.
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