From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Financial year?
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:40:37 GMT

Joe Fox wrote:

> Sorry for the delayed reply to this subject but it came up during a
> search for "Year Start".
> Does the government's year start on the week containing 1 April or
> actually 1  April ?
> 
>  How come wee don't have a national standard for everyone like the week
> starting Saturday that contains the 1 April or even the week starting
> Saturday the first full week of April.

Because that would be a pig's breakfast.  With the present scheme,
most years contain 365 days, and some 366.

With your scheme most years would contain 366 days, but some 368,
some 359, and some 361.

With the present scheme, every year contains 52 occurrences of each
weekday except one or two, of which there would be 53.

With yours, some years would contain only 51 occurrences of some days.

Remind us again what benefits you think your scheme would bring.