Zning Year and the Zning Month Celebration
The Decree: Down with Leap Years up with Zning Years!
So what is all this about? Last night at Alcohol Wednesday we all discussed the idea of a 13th month to replace Leap Years. This month would be called Zning and would consist of only a single day of mad awesome celebration. Of course a Zning Year would only occur every four years or so (like Leap Years there would have to be some occasional adjustments where a Zning Year might not occur for more or less than every fourth year). I propose that the one day month of Zning be a world wide celebration of adjusting the calender so that the equinoxes continue to fall on the same days every year. I see Zning Month being a universally celebrated secular holiday that can be enjoyed by all the world’s people. There should be dancing and singing and the consumption of good foods and drinks. People can play games with the ceremonial Yite Stick (like Zning Month Yite Stick throws!). Anybody born on Zning month shall be dubbed a Zningling and regarded as a nondenominational priests or priestesses of the Zning Month with the sacred duty of the keeping of the Zning tradition. On non Zning years the exact moment of all Zninglings’ births shall be determined by the collision of high energy sub atomic particles in the Large Hadron Collider coinciding in the break between non Zning months. It has been proposed that Zning Month should fall between August and September as there do not seem to be that many exciting holidays at this time. The wonder of Zning Years and the month of Zning is the fact that it isn’t annual. We arn’t talking Thanksgiving here people, we are talking about a super awesome holiday that only falls every four years and so the anticipation should be massive for any upcoming Zning Year. February 29th bleh! Zning Month? Awesome! Oh and for anybody who was in the past born on a February 29th your birthdays shall be officially moved to July 12th. Why you ask? Because I am a bastard and I say so, take that.
[...] (though it was kind of cold and damp). Now looking forward to February, which is exciting because Zning Month will close it [...]
The romans had an intercalary month. It kept the sun running on time, but of course, the moon got lost. What good is it to refer to the ides of March when the moon wasn’t even full then? Of course, it was Julius Caesar that had made the change so it was his own fault.