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Advantages and disadvantages

The article barely touches on this matter. The lead paragraph of Calendar reform states "simplicity and regularity" and goes on to elaborate. But the only thing I can see about disadvantages is about leap week calendars specifically, furthermore despite there being a whole article about these. Elsewhere it is noted that, with blank-day calendars, the interruption to the regular weekday cycle is subject to religious objection.

Another one, which I thought I saw somewhere but can't seem find now, applies to both kinds of perennial calendar: anniversaries will fall on the same day of the week every year. I think many of us love that every now and again we will get a weekend birthday. But with a perennial calendar, this will never come round except for people born at the weekend.

I wonder if we can start an 'Advantages and disadvantages' section, move the currently stated advantages into this, and add disadvantages such as those I've just mentioned. But I'm not sure if we need to find a source for the one I've just mentioned or it can be considered WP:OBV.... — Smjg (talk) 22:24, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Definition of blank-day calendar

The definition given under Blank-day calendars seems overspecific. They "remove a day or two (the latter for leap years) from the weekday cycle, resulting in a year length of 364 weekdays" only if the week length is a factor of 364. Is the French Republican calendar not a blank-day calendar, just because it removes five or six days from the weekday cycle rather than one or two? Then what is it?

Furthermore, does it count as a blank-day calendar if it defines there to be an additional day of the week used for these inserted days, rather than them being not of any day of the week, a bit like the way the Julian and Gregorian calendars have the extra day in leap years as 29 February rather than being an unnamed date? — Smjg (talk) 22:33, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A missing type

In contrast with inserted days interrupting the weekday cycle, what about points in the year at which a day in this cycle is skipped? What is this type of calendar called? The Darian calendar is an example. — Smjg (talk) 22:36, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]