«The calendar I'm advocating isn't nearly as accurate» as the Gregorian calendar, said Richard Henry, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins who has been pushing
for calendar reform for years.
Another hoax: that the April Fool's tradition began with
Renaissance calendar reform, when the new year was moved from April to January, and those ignorant of the switch were mocked.
«My heart sank, and I thought, «Oh my god, I don't want to get involved
in calendar reform.
He first got into the idea
of calendar reform while having to yet again update lecture dates and syllabi for his students.
Other businessmen's attempts
at calendar reform, including one by Eastman Kodak founder George Eastman, failed because they didn't always maintain Sundays as weekends, disrupting the Sabbath for Christians.