5-days/week calendar

Part of the problem with calendar reform is the number we have to work with -- 365 and some-odd hundredths -- doesn't really divide nicely. Even taking 365 by itself, we are looking at factors of five and 73.

73 might be an ugly factor, but 72 works nicely. With five days per week and six weeks (30 days) per month, we will have twelve months with exactly one week left over which we can celebrate as "year's end." This cycle works without the need for a yearly "world day."

For a complete calendar, we need a leap day every four years except in years divisible by 128 -- which makes it more accurate than either the Gregorian or Mayan calendars. Call this leap day "election day," and make it a national holiday set aside for voting.

Benefits of this calendar include more weekends per year (72 vs. 52, plus "year's end"), a shorter work week (two days off per five day week is nearly equivalent to the four day work week proposed elsewhere), and closer matching to seasons, especially if we start the year at the autumnal equinox. In addition, you could use the same calendar every year, it's easier to count by 5's than by 7's, businesses can easily divide the year into halves, thirds, quarters, etc. (hard to do with 13 months) -- even the months can be split into halves and thirds for payment purposes.

Plus, you would get a cool rhyme to remember things by:

Thirty days hath September,

And every month that you remember.

On Year's End, across the nation

Add a week for celebration.

Every four years, you might note,

Add another day to vote.