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1 45./0123456789Ol234567890l US 20040047243A1 (19) United States m Ae P 0.. oh c a t 01 0 n P H b Oh c a t 01 0 n ..U S 2 0 0 4 KP an t3 28 twb U“ 019 PP uu b. ND 03 m.H mmMr. 71 21 4, 32 A01% (54) PERPETUAL SOLAR AND SEASONAL ?led on Nov. 9, 2001, noW abandoned. CALENDAR SYSTEM Publication Classi?cation (76) Inventor: John Anthony Karageorge, Ocean City, MD (US) (51) Int.Cl.7 G04B 19/24 (52) U.S.Cl. eI ) PSN ACd Dd S1 D2E 004 mA.E AY,e gmnm met6 7y wideB WWT W 9, mw rmm mm CJlO nHmw mmCTMmmM mmmz PHmh vPam 6.1an daan tm lch u.mmh @Cs m mm 5m ahla mm (21) APPL NO; 10/645 551 receive the 25th leap day and Which centuries do not. A ’ calendar that has all four seasons starting at the beginning of (22) Filed; Aug 22, 2003 a month instead of in the middle of a month. Acalendar that has the NeW Year occur on the ?rst day of spring When Related US. Application Data annual life forms begin aneW. An intelligent time reckoning mechanism that meets the needs of any advanced civiliza (63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 09/986,566, tion. Perpetual Solar and Seasonal Calendar Year April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Dec. Jan. Feb. 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Patent Application Publication Mar. 11, 2004 Sheet 1 0f 2 US 2004/0047243 A1 Patent Application Publication Mar. 11, 2004 Sheet 2 0f 2 US 2004/0047243 A1 N.82 @3865mm322.58080%286A Q88$38882903oovdwv03ma“23>@550WEMEEQEE“8%23% US 2004/0047243 A1 Mar. 11, 2004 PERPETUAL SOLAR AND SEASONAL CALENDAR etc.) are not leap years for the Gregorian calendar, but they SYSTEM are for the Julian calendar. This means that the Gregorian calendar alloWs for the 25th leap day to be added to every CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED fourth century. As already stated, the Gregorian calendar has APPLICATIONS 24.25 leap days per century ((3><24+25)/4=24.25 leap days per century), Which makes it accurate to Within one day in [0001] This application is a Continuation-In-Part of Ser. No. 09/986,566 ?led on Nov. 9, 2001. 3,323 years. [0009] If We use the advice presented by Britannica ency BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION clopedia (don’t add the 25th leap day to centuries that are [0002] 1. Field of Invention evenly divisible by 4000 (10 cycles of 400 years)), the Gregorian calendar leap day ratio Would change from 24.25 [0003] This invention is a perpetual calendar system that to 24.225 days per century in tWo thousand years. ((30>< improves upon the Gregorian calendar in several Ways With 24)+(10><25)—1)/40=24.225 leap days per century. At 24.225 the foremost primary improvement being the accurate cal leap days per century, the Gregorian calendar is accurate to culation of and the determination of Which centuries should Within one day in 20,000 years (it’s precisely 19,636.363 receive a 25th leap day. Another major feature of this years). This Will become more apparent as you vieW the invention is the alignment of the months With the four folloWing manual algorithmic scenario (algorithm # 1) seasons. Which is generated as a result of the Britannica prescription. [0004] 2. Prior Art This algorithm clearly shoWs some of the ?aWs of the Gregorian calendar. [0005] Julius Caesar, on the advise of the Greek, Sosi genes, authoriZed the use of the Julian calendar in BC. 46 (year 709 of Rome). This system remained in effect for the Western World until AD 1582 at Which time several coun Algorithm #1 Gregorian Calendar tries sWitched to the Gregorian calendar. St. Bede, the Venerable, an Anglo-Saxon monk, concluded in AD 730 that Solar year = 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes & 46 seconds the Julian year Was 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than 5 hrs. 48 min. 46 sec. = 20,926 seconds x 100 years the solar year, but nothing Was done to correct this discrep surplus seconds: 2,092,600 ancy for another 800 years. To make up for the accumulated 2,092,600/86,400 = 24.2199074074 days per century error in time, Pope Gregory XIII decreed that the day .2199074074 days = 19,000 seconds of surplus 19,000 x 4 centuries = 76,000 surplus seconds folloWing Oct. 4, 1582, should be Oct. 15, 1582, thus (add 25th day) — 86,400 (400 years) starting the Gregorian calendar. —10,400 de?cit x 10 time periods [0006] The Gregorian calendar Was ?rst adopted by -104,000 de?cit France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Luxembourg. The British (don’t add 25th day) + 86,400 (4,000 years) government, including the American colonies, sWitched to —17,600 de?cit the Gregorian calendar in 1752. The day folloWing Sep. 2, x 5 time periods —88,000 de?cit 1752, Was decreed to be September 14, yielding a loss of 11 (skip 1 2/3 1) + 86.400 (20,000 years) days. Under the neW Gregorian calendar, NeW Year’s Day —1,600 de?cit Was moved from March 25th (Julian calendar) to January x 54 time periods 1st, Which is a very peculiar place to have the neW year start. —86,400 de?cit (skip 12/30) + 86,400 (1,080,000 years) Another shortcoming of the Gregorian calendar is that it 0 (—55 days) only takes the solution to the 25th leap day so far; it does not bring the problem to conclusion. Gregorian calendar aligned With the solar year. [0007] Leap years are necessary because the solar year is 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds long. That’s [0010] As you can see, 0.25 is greater than 0.2199074; 20,926 seconds more than 365 days. In one hundred years therefore, the Gregorian calendar is over compensating that accrues to 2,092,600 seconds (2,092,600/86,400 sec causing a de?cit of time When it adds the 25th leap day to onds per day=24.2199074 days—every century gets 24 leap the fourth century. The original surplus of 19,000 seconds days, the dilemma is determining Which centuries get the (0.2199074 days) every 100 years groWs to 76,000 seconds 25th leap day). Five hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds is 11 in 400 years. When We add a 25th leap day for that century minutes and 14 seconds short of 1A day; if it Were exactly 6 We over compensate by 10,400 seconds causing a de?cit of hours, the Julian calendar Would have Worked perfectly (add time. That de?cit groWs to 104,000 seconds after 4000 years an eXtra day every four years Without skipping a beat). At 25 at Which time We do not add the 25th leap day. This leap days per century, the Julian calendar Was accurate to compensation still leaves us With a de?cit of 17,600 seconds Within one day in 128 years. Which groWs to 88,000 seconds in 5 time periods (20,000 [0008] The Gregorian calendar improved upon the Julian years). So every 20,000 years We not only do not add the calendar by aligning a little more closer to the solar year, but 25th leap day, We must also subtract one day from our not completely With the solar year. The Gregorian calendar calendar. This process continues eXactly this Way for 1,080, currently calculates time at the rate of 24.25 leap days per 000 years at Which time We subtract 2 days and then the century. It Works this Way: Leap years occur every four years cycle starts over again. The fallacy With this system, as starting on the ?rst year of the century; hoWever, century prescribed by Britannica Encyclopedia, is, if We continue years that are not evenly divisible by 400 (1800, 1900, 2100, using the algorithmic scenario “400 years, 4,000 years, US 2004/0047243 A1 Mar. 11, 2004 20,000 years . ” We Would eventually need to delete 55 [0019] The present invention accomplishes the folloWing common days from our calendar in order to align With the objectives: solar year. [0020] (1) It ef?ciently calculates the 25th leap day and signi?es Which centuries are to receive it, a feat [0011] In brief, the Gregorian calendar is de?cient in three that no previous calendar system has been able to major areas: accomplish until noW; [0012] (1) It does not calculate the 25th leap day [0021] (2) It aligns With the four seasons and brings ef?ciently enough for an advanced civiliZation; some semblance of intelligence to our reckoning of time; [0013] (2) With NeW Year’s Day occurring on J anu [0022] (3) It starts the NeW Year at the beginning of ary 1 (12 days into Winter), We have tWo Winters spring, Where it belongs; every year; and [0023] (4) It is simply a smart system that any [0014] (3) All of our seasons fall in the middle of a advanced civiliZation Would require and use.
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