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BALTIMORE, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- A pair of professors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said they want to do away with leap years in favor of an all new calendar.
Astrophysicist Richard Conn Henry and economist Steve Hanke said their proposed calendar would feature 364 days to a year with an extra "mini-month" week added at the end of December every five or six years to compensate for the lack of Leap Years, The Christian Science Monitor reported Wednesday.
The professors said their calendar would ensure holidays and birthdays always fall on the same day of the week and make things easier on both individuals and businesses when it comes to subjects such as calculating interest.
The men said their calendar would be split into 91-day quarters that would total 12 months, eight of which would have 30 days and the rest would have 31.
"Our plan offers a stable calendar that is absolutely identical from year to year and which allows the permanent, rational planning of annual activities, from school to work holidays," Henry said.
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