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A calendar reform is any significant revision of a calendar system. The term sometimes is used instead for a proposal to switch to a different calendar.

Most calendars have several rules which could be altered by reform:

  • If and how days are grouped into subdivisions such as months and weeks, and days outside those subdivisions, if any.
  • Which years are leap years and common years and how they differ.
  • Numbering of years, selection of the epoch, and the issue of year zero.
  • Start of the year (such as winter solstice, January 1, March 1, spring equinox, Easter).
  • If a week is retained, the start, length, and names of its days.
  • Start of the day (midnight, sunrise, noon, or sunset).
  • If months are retained, number, lengths, and names of months,
  • Special days and periods (such as leap day or intercalary day).
  • Alignment with social cycles.
  • Alignment with astronomic cycles.
  • Alignment with biological cycles.
  • Literal notation of dates.

See also

Specific proposals

There have been many specific calendar proposals to replace the Gregorian Calendar:

The following count one or more days outside the standard seven-day week:

The following are leap week calendars:

The following track the moon as well as the sun:

There have also been proposals to revise the way years are numbered:




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