Day 182 · Jun 30

Halfway Through the Year

Day 182 of a leap year falls on June 30 — the exact midpoint of 365 days falls on July 2 in non-leap years. The number 182 = 2 × 7 × 13, with twelve divisors. The unequal distribution of days across months (28, 29, 30, 31) means no calendar quarter is exactly one-quarter of the year. A perfectly regular calendar with 13 months of 28 days plus one 'World Day' (365 = 13 × 28 + 1) was seriously proposed as the International Fixed Calendar — adopted by Eastman Kodak for internal use from 1928 to 1989. Mathematically clean; humanly awkward.

The International Fixed Calendar has 13 months of 28 days. What day of the week would every month begin on, and what problem does this solve compared with our current calendar?

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