Talk:Pax Calendar
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[edit] What would be interesting
What I would find interesting is the answers to the following questions.
- Why did he call the leap week Pax?
- Why did he call the extra month Columbus?
- Why did he decide to put it between November and December?
Okay, perhaps he liked Christopher Columbus or perhaps just liked America and perhaps he liked Latin and liked peace ... that would be understandable. By why between November and December? This is an odd place. I wonder whether anyone knows or whether he took the answers to these questions to his grave with him. Jimp 07:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- These are excellent questions. I suspect he did take them to the grave, but maybe he explained them somewhere in his writings (now probably lost.) The first and second tend to explain themselves - he seems to have been attracted to, or supported, peace; and thought Columbus should be honored. I doubt a calendar reformer today hoping for worldwide adoption of the calendar would seek to honor Columbus - who is controversial and has relevance only for the Western Hemisphere. However, the "Peace" angle would sell to many people. Nhprman UserLists 15:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
