NUCALENDAR AT A GLANCE

NUCALENDAR The New Universal Calendar of Rights and Ideals

The New Universal Calendar is a proposal for a total reform of the internationally accepted Gregorian Calendar, Based on Julian C...

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The New Universal Calendar is a proposal for a total reform of the internationally accepted Gregorian Calendar, Based on Julian Calendar (see about calendars). NUCAL Is a regular, easy to remember, non religious and non anti-religious stable way to organize time segments. NUCAL consists of 13 month each of 28 days and 4 weeks of 7 days, there is also a day not belonging to any month called Years Day.

THE NUCALENDAR YEAR

NUCAL also promotes changing the current Christian Era with historical dates in negative with the obsolete roman notation system of centuries, to the superimposed Eras system and the centurial notation. Finally NUCAL promotes a change in the starting and ending hours of the day.
NUCALENDAR WEEK
NUCALENDAR DAY

NUCAL compared to Gregorian Calendar
  • Every month has 28 days
  • All months have 4 equal weeks of 7 days
  • Every month starts on a holiday Monday
  • Every month ends in a Sunday
  • Each month is divissible by 2, 4 and 7
  • Each year starts on a holiday Monday
  • Each year ends and starts with 4 consecutive holidays
  • The names of the days of the week are multicultural
  • The names of the months promote Human Rights
  • The Centuries are coincidental with year digits
  • There are no negative dates (b.C.)
  • The day starts in the morning not in the midnight
The Eras system
There are 3 eras in NUCAL:
  1. The Era of History (EH) Starting on 10.001 b.C.
  2. The Era of Sapiens (ES) Starting on 100.001 b.C.
  3. The Era of Mankind (EM) Starting on 1,000.001 b.C.
For example year 2018 is:
12018 (EH) and 112.018 (ES) and 1,112.018 (EM)
2018 is comprised in the 120th Centuria of the (EH) Era
No negative dates anymore. Very simple!

Rules of NUCAL
  1. The days of the week are 7
  2. Each an every month has 4 weeks
  3. So all months have 28 days
  4. There are 13 months on a year
  5. Week Days are named after the Continents
  6. Months are named after basic Human Rights
  7. Every month starts with a holiday named after a right or ideal
  8. The Calendar starts with the Winter Solstice
  9. The last day of the year is called Years Day
  10. Years Day does not belong to any month is a Holiday
  11. In leap years there is an additional holiday after Years Day
  12. Last day in leap years is called Second Years Day
  13. Every day starts at 6:00 AM in the morning
  14. Every day ends before 6:00 next morning
  15. So there is always one day and one night per day

International NUCALENDAR name of the days of the week based on Continents

Rational NUCALENDAR day starting and ending hours versus present system

The NUCALENDAR does not stop in days counting, it is a proposal for a total reform in various aspects  of Calendars and time counting in general. NUCALENDAR proposes the use of the Three Eras System to refer dates.

The first Era system is the Era of History, based on the Holocenic Era of notable italian geologist Cesare Emiliani:

The Era of History EH starts its counting in the year 10,001 b.C. (B.C.E) this is arbitrary and serves the purpose for an easier conversion. To convert from Gregorian to EH just add 1 to the left. I.e. 1500B.C.E is 11500EH.

The Era of Sapiens ES starts its counting in the year 100,001 b.C. (B.C.E), to reffer dates prior to those included in the Era of Mankind. To convert from Gregorian to EH just add 11 to the left.

And finally the Era of Mankind EM starts in the year 1,000,001 b.C. (B.C.E). To convert from Gregorian to EH just add 111 to the left.

Some historical dates based on the Era of History:
Gregorian years
Era of History
Event
10001 BC
0EH
The approximate beginning of the Holocene
10000 BC
1EH
9000 BC
1001EH
Jericho, the earliest known walled city
4713 BC
5288EH
The start of the Julian date (JD) at January 1, Greenwich noon, Julian proleptic calendar
3761 BC
6240EH
Beginning of Anno Mundi in the Jewish calendar
3085 BC
6916EH
Pharaoh Narmer (a.k.a. Menes) unifies Egypt
1792 BC
8209EH
Possible date of the birth of Hammurabi
1379 BC
8622EH
The reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten begins
776 BC
9225EH
The beginning of the first Olympiad
753 BC
9248EH
Legendary Founding of Rome, ab urbe condita
551 BC
9450EH
Probable date of birth of Confucius
544 BC
9457EH
The posible date of death of Siddhartha Gautama. The start of the Buddhist Era
535 BC
9466 HE
The beginning of the Sungai Batu civilization, Malaysia
323 BC
9678EH
Death of Alexander the Great in Babylon
221 BC
9780EH
The founding of Imperial China by the Qin dynasty
218 BC
9783EH
Hannibal's invasión of Italy
45 BC
9956EH
The introduction of the Julian calendar
44 BC
9957EH
The Assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March
5 BC
9996EH
A possible date of the Birth of Jesus
1 BC
10000EH
Year Zero at ISO 8601
1 AD
10001EH
The beginning of the Vulgar Era Anno Salutis
476 AD
10476EH
Fall of Rome
622 AD
10622EH
The migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina (Hijrah), Begin of the Islamic calendar
800 AD
10800EH
The Coronation of Charlemagne
1230 AD
11230EH
The founding of the Malí Empire
1453 AD
11453EH
The Fall of Constantinople
1492 AD
11492EH
The first Voyage of Christopher Columbus
1582 AD
11582EH
The introduction of the Gregorian calendar
1776 AD
11776EH
United States Declaration of Independence
1789 AD
11789EH
Storming of the Bastille and beginning of the French Revolution
1914 AD
11914EH
World War I starts
1918 AD
11918EH
 World War I ends
1917 AD
11917EH
The February and the October Revolution in Russia
1939 AD
11939EH
World War II starts
1945 AD
11945EH
 World War II ends
1950 AD
11950EH
Commencement date of Before Present
1960 AD
11962EH
Independence of various African nations
1969 AD
11969EH
First manned Moon landing
1993 AD
11993EH
Publication of the Holocene calendar by Cesare Emiliani
2016 AD
12016EH
Current Year
2017 AD
12017EH

2018 AD
12018EH

2019 AD
12019EH

2020 AD
12020EH



Since the beginning of Human thinking, Mankind has organized the time into segments to rule the common life, this is what we call calendars. The sideral cicles make it difficult to establish regular and divisible leaps of time. Mesopotamian and Egyptian calendars had important inaccuracies, same to say about the lunar calendars wich did not match with the solar year. The solar year called Tropical Year itself is not "perfect" composed of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 30 seconds. Despite this difficulties some peoples notably the Mayan Civilization succeded in creating a regular, but very complex, divission of time.
The Maya Calendar

The actually most whidely accepted Calendar, the Gregorian was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, the papal bull Inter gravissimas. The calendar was adopted later that year by a handful of countries, with other countries adopting it over the following centuries. The Gregorian calendar introduced some reforms to the previous Julian calendar and also to the lunar cicles. This calendar has been ruling the lives of most of the countries with little contestation despite some errors, some inaccuracies and over all the very obvious intrinsic irregularities.

Pope Gregory XIII
The main critics came with the French Revolution and later with the positivistic movement. One of the latest proposed reforms to the Gregorian calendar is the International Fixed calendar (also known as the International Perpetual calendar, the Cotsworth plan, the Eastman plan, the 13 Month calendar or the Equal Month calendar) this proposal provides a year of 13 months of 28 days each, with one day at the end of each year belonging to no month or week. The International Perpetual calendar is based on the Positivist Calendar published in 1849 by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857). Comte based his calendar on Polynesian calendars, unfortunatelly other Comte's ideas where dismisible and linked to racism. The idea continued with the International Fixed Calendar League, it was founded in 1923 by Moses B. Cotsworth, with offices in London and later in Rochester, New York, but it ceased activities in the 1930s.

Moses B. Cotsworth

Some say a calendar is only a social convention and its importancy is only psicological. But the fact is that calendars will continue to rule several aspects of our lives, specially work time, weekends and holidays, international and local commerce, industry, students life, and spare time. If the Gregorian calendar is inaccurate or irregular this contributes to irregularities and innaccuracies in all those mentioned fields, and this can lead to less quality of life.
Antumi Toasijé