Retro Calendars – Type A

If you think about it there are only 14 different configurations for a calendar; one for each day of the week without a leap day, and one that starts on each day of the week with a leap day. If you doubt this, you can look it up in the World Almanac, where they have, not only a display of all 14 configurations, but a list of which each one of those configurations will be used for the upcoming years. The almanac that I am looking in list the years from 1821-2080. Wouldn’t it be fun to have calendars for past years that agreed with the current year’s configuration? For instance, this year (2007) is the same as 2001, 1990, 1979, 1973 and 1821 just to mention a few. One could also use the same idea for a futuristic calendar as well and pick 2074. So whenever next years calendars go on sell, and they drop the price on this year’s, pick a few up, they will be good eventually and will be a good conversation piece. I suppose someone could also use this to mass produce calendars like this. If so, I would gladly take any royalties for the idea if I am the first one to publish the idea. Well, still have a few months to get ready for next year. Start digging through your old stuff for a 1980 calendar.