Intercalation (timekeeping) year of 365 days, an extra day ("leap day" or "intercalary day") about every four years, causing a leap year to have 366 days (Julian, Gregorian and Indian national calendars). The Decree of Canopus, which was issued by the pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes of Ancient Egypt in 239 BCE, decreed a solar leap day system; an Egyptian leap year was not adopted until 25 BC, when the Roman Emperor Augustus successfully instituted a reformed Alexandrian calendar. In the Julian calendar, as well as in the Gregorian calendar, which improved upon it, intercalation is done by adding an extra day to
Pax Calendar to 48 hours or making Pax a month of 28 or 21 days to be added 18 times in 400 years. Pax Calendar The Pax calendar was invented by James A. Colligan, SJ in 1930 as a perennializing reform of the annualized Gregorian calendar. The common year is divided into 13 months of 28 days each, whose names are the same as in the Gregorian calendar, except that a month called "Columbus" occurs between November and December. The first day of every week, month and year would be Sunday. Unlike other perennial calendar reform proposals, such as the International Fixed