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The proposed CCC&T Calendar is an adaptation of (1996).
The CCC&T Calendar is also very similar to Irv Bromberg's . I would be
delighted if Irv's calendar should be adopted.
Attention is also drawn to the article "The Calendar of the Future. A World Calendar wtih Leap Week," by Josef Suran
(1998, Vistas in Astronomy, 41, 493), and important references therein. Suran indicates that the notion of a leap-week
calendar was first introduced in 1926 by M. P. Delaporte.
Phases of the Moon are calculated using the program given in "Numerical Recipes in Fortran," by W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky,
W. T. Vetterling, and B. P. Flannery, 1992, (New York: Cambridge). This was checked against the
planetarium program; agreement seems to be to about a third of a day, by spot checking. This should be adequate for
most purposes.
Julian Day is calculated using formulas given by .
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