>The proposed solution was to make the 365th day a special "New Year's Day," which is outside of the weeks and months of the normal calendar. Every fourth year, you'd have a two-day holiday. New Year's Day plus Leap Day. The whole conversion process would be disastrous to go from our current system to this proposed one. There would be an incredible amount of code changes needed to move to the new system and there would be a vast amount of hardware and software that would not be able to move forward which makes for a huge mess. There's just no way to get there without a massive and costly switchover that frankly will not provide much benefit. And of course all the legacy data/information and all of history is now in every form is ruined for time. It's just not worth it.