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A METRIC DIARY -- for every year and perpetual

The frame below shows the week pages, with or without the cover, of a Metric diary. They can be printed out all together or separately. At the top on the left of each page you see the year number of the week, the abbreviation of the Metric month and, if enough space, the Month-Day code. For the use of the (Year-)Week-Day and (Year-)Month-Day codes see especially Go Global, Go Metric.

At the top on the right you can find whether the page shows the first, second, third or fourth week of the month, unless you opt for the Gregorian dates (see below). There are no preprinted references to supernaturalist, monarchist or other exclusivist (non)events in this diary.

You have the following options with respect to the presentation of the diary cover and week pages:

  • the week or weeks you want to be shown (any number between 1 and 52), while 0 will display the outside cover pages and 53 the inside ones
  • the Gregorian dates at the top on the right instead of the week and the name of the Metric month, and the Gregorian-Metric correspondence of weekdays on the inside back of the cover
  • a standard A5- or A6-size diary in black and white with the pages shown in the order in which they will have to be put together on paper: after entering one of the numbers from 1 to 26, the other week page will be supplied automatically to the left or right of it, with enough room in between for the spine of the booklet; the numbers 0 and 53 (or 27) will, similarly, supply the cover pages
  • the number of week pages you want to see in one row, for example, 4, so that every row represents a Metric month. (In the standard printing option this number is 2.)
  • the width of each page: somewhere between 350 and 600 pixels, if you intend to use this diary on paper. (In the standard printing option 450 pixels for A5, 350 for A6.)
  • the height of each of the 'day cells' that make up a week: about 100 to 130 pixels, or only 40 to first see what the page will look like. (The text on the inside cover pages requires a height of at least 100 pixels per cell.)

The option of showing the Gregorian dates at the top of the page is a concession for practical reasons. If put between parentheses, these dates refer to the days in a leap year. The Metric day of the week corresponds with the same Gregorian day of the week for a whole year (or half a year in leap years). On the inside back of the cover this can be filled in for the current year. Thus, in 58 aSWW the first weekday falls on a Gregorian Sunday, the second on a Monday, etc, until 26.8. From 27.1 the first weekday falls on a Gregorian Monday, the second on a Tuesday, etc. The correspondence between the dates is only valid (because fixed) so long as Metric leap years are made to coincide with Gregorian ones.


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