Advantages
- The calendar starts on the same day of the week every year.
- There are no fragments of weeks at the beginning or end of the year.
- Unlike the Gregorian calendar, variations of years are limited to a possible addition of a leap week.
- For leap week calendars without months, each date of the year can be completely specified with three data (week, weekday, year), instead of four (weekday, month, ordinal day, year).
- Unlike certain proposed calendar reforms such as the World Calendar and International Fixed Calendar, there are no exceptions to the seven-day cycle of the week. This avoids opposition from religious groups who object to interruption of the weekday sequence.
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