quarantine 'em

I don't normally go point by point but this particular proposal is right out of the textbook. http://qntm.org/calendar 

The only thing I don't think I've seen before is dodging the "thirteenth month name" issue by removing month names entirely.

Oh, actually, placing "New Year's Day" at the END of the calendar year is a new one on me.

On leap years, does Leap Day come before or after New Year's Day? Which year is it part of?

Honestly, I don't have a serious problem with alternate calendars as long as they're well-specified and conversions are easy

Just because the Gregorian calendar is unkillable doesn't mean it can't be improved upon.

A perfect calendar is impossible, but the Gregorian calendar falls a LONG way short of the best we could do.

But even in the ideal case, the total amount of potential improvement is far too small to justify the switch.