Rules
The calendar year has 13 months with 28 days each, divided into exactly 4 weeks . An extra day added as a holiday at the end of the year, sometimes called "Year Day," brings the total to 365 days. Each year coincides with the corresponding Gregorian year, so January 1 in the Cotsworth calendar always falls on Gregorian January 1. Twelve months are named and ordered the same as those of the Gregorian calendar, except that the extra month is inserted between June and July, and called Sol. Situated in mid-summer, the name of the new month was chosen in homage to the sun. But it escaped notice that the sun's prominence around June and July holds for the Northern hemisphere only.
Leap year in the International Fixed Calendar contains 366 days, and its occurrence follows the Gregorian rule. There is a leap year in every year whose number is divisible by 4, but not if the year number is divisible by 100, unless it is also divisible by 400. So although the year 2000 was a leap year, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were common years. The International Fixed Calendar inserts the extra day in leap year after June 28th and before Sol 1st.
Each month begins on a Sunday, and ends on a Saturday; consequently, every year begins on Sunday. All the months look like this:
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
The 13 months and extra days occur on the following Gregorian dates:
| Month | Starts | Ends |
|---|---|---|
| January | January 1 | January 28 |
| February | January 29 | February 25 |
| March | February 26 | March 25* |
| April | March 26* | April 22* |
| May | April 23* | May 20* |
| June | May 21* | June 17* |
| Leap Day | June 17 | |
| Sol | June 18 | July 15 |
| July | July 16 | August 12 |
| August | August 13 | September 9 |
| September | September 10 | October 7 |
| October | October 8 | November 4 |
| November | November 5 | December 2 |
| December | December 3 | December 30 |
| Year Day | December 31 | |
*These dates are a day earlier in a leap year.
Read more about this topic: International Fixed Calendar
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