NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.
Before you measure the years, you measure the days.
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them
Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
There's no question that I am biased toward the Hebrew calendar over the Gregorian one.
