The Calendar Zone -- "the" calendar site; highly recommended.
Home Page for Calendar Reform by Rick McCarty, including
CALNDR-L discussion list.
Bill Hollon's web site
-- it's about time, mainly calendars (worth a visit for
the neat site map).
The
Calendar FAQ by Claus Tøndering. Now available both
as a set of HTML web pages and as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file.
Toke Nørby's
The
Perpetual Calendar -- calendar history, Gregorian,
French, Danish, Russian.
Peter Meyer's
The Julian and the Gregorian Calendars,
Calendrical and Astronomical Links, and articles by
Simon Cassidy -- all worth reading.
Calendar by Eric Weisstein, University of Virginia -- calendar
history, world calendars, links.
The Calendar by Roland Seidel -- history, different calendar
systems, more.
Calendopaedia -
The Encyclopaedia of Calendars by Michael Astbury -- includes Julian,
Gregorian, and comparison of many different calendars.
Justin White's
CalendarHome.com -- gaudy, but it's got everything.
Calendars reprinted from the Explanatory Supplement to the
Astronomical Almanac, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, editor -- includes rules and history for
Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Julian calendars.
Rice University's
Gregorian Calendar -- historical background.
A Summary
of the International Standard Date and Time Notation
by Markus Kuhn -- International Standard ISO 8601.
The
Seven-Day Week by Edward Stephan -- names for the seven days in
dozens of languages.
Yahoo: Reference: Calendars -- Yahoo links!
Most of these sites have calendar programs that do calendar
conversions or prepare calendars which you can save or print.
Today's
Calendar and Clock Page by Will Linden -- today's date in
dozens of calendar systems, plus hundreds of links.
The
Worldwide Holiday and Festival Site by Brian Prescott-Decie --
holidays in countries galore.
Christian Science Monitor's
It's
About Time.
Calendar
Trivia by Drew Lawson -- including Friday the 13th, calendar systems,
and background on the Revised Julian calendar,
which removes 7 leap years for each 900 years.
Think the Millennium starts on January 1, 2000? Actually, 2000 is just
the last year of the second Millennium. See Douglas Adams'
Significant
Events of the Millennium.
calendarexpress.com -- "Hundreds
of calendars visually displayed for secure online purchase at
discounted prices!" Okay, it's a very commercial site, but people
sometimes ask me where to buy an actual calendar, so this would
be one place to look...
2004 Calendars -- "Find the
perfect 2004 calendar for yourself or a gift."
... and this would be another.
The
Spiral Calendar by Calendar Research, Inc. -- "Did you
know that on the lunar calendar, the stock market
crashes of 1987 and 1929 occurred on the exact, same date?
That discovery led to a methodology for identifying time periods
where irrational and emotional behavior may occur."
DEC
Answers Leap Year Complaint -- I love this one!
Apparently someone complained to Digital Equipment Corporation
back in 1983 that the year 2000 should not be a leap year.
Read Digital's restrained reply.
(When the only URL I had for
this page gave me a 404 "not found" error,
I checked my cache, and yes! it was still there!
So now it's posted on my site.
Should DEC -- or Compaq, or HP, or whoever they are now --
have a problem with this, please contact me.)
Let Me Count the Days, an essay by Isaac Asimov in his 266th(!) book
Counting the Eons, 1983, Mercury Press, ISBN 0-385-17976-6 (pp.50-61)
(from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1981) --
a fascinating and entertaining article which provides background
on Joseph Justus Scaliger and the origin of the Julian period and Julian day.
In Ed
Seiler's "big list" of major editions of all of Asimov's published books,
Counting The Eons is also listed as published by
Avon/Discus, softcover, 1984, ISBN 0-380-67090-9.
The Seven Day Circle; The History and Meaning of the Week,
by Eviatar Zerubavel, 1985, The Free Press, New York, ISBN 0-02-934680-0.
