A NEW CALENDER

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orget leap years, months with 28 days and your birthday falling on a different day of the week each year. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland say they have a better way to mark time: a new calendar would divvy out months and weeks so that every calendar date would always fall on the same day of the week.Christmas, for example, would forever come on a Sunday.

Their proposed calendar was largely unprecedented in the 430 years since Pope Gregory XIII instituted the Gregorian calendar we still use today.

"The calendar I'm advocating isn't nearly as accurate" as the Gregorian calendar, said Richard Henry, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins who has been pushing for calendar reform for years. "But it's far more convenient."