The Gregorian Calendar: Where It Lacks
The Gregorian calendar is the one which is most commonly followed but is believed to be phasing out soon. The reason for its downturn may be due to several disadvantages it has over the World Calendar. These issues make it confusing for us and thus its failure may be attributed to the following Gregorian calendar drawbacks:
Annual nature of the Calendar:
The Gregorian calendar is of annual nature. This lays down the need of having a new calendar each year rather than having a standard calendar to follow always. In this way if you were born on Friday, April 4th 1990; it won’t change to Sunday, April 4th 2017. Christmas will also fall on same day every year. Years don’t even start with the same day each year when the Gregorian calendar is followed.
The confusion of 31 and 30 days:
One of the major Gregorian calendar drawbacks is the difficulty it poses to help us remember which months have 31 days and which ones 30. There is no set system or easy formula to remember months having 31 days.
Incorrect assortment of days in each quarter:
In the Gregorian calendar, each quarter is of unequal size with Jan-Mar having 80 days (non-leap year) and Apr-Jun having 91 days and so on. This makes it difficult to compare them judiciously. This drawback has major implications on areas like statistical studies etc which require exact number of dates for the purpose of comparison and evaluation etc.