This site was originally based on the the Perpetual Calendars I found when a child in the telephone book. those calendars printed in very small letters displayed the fourteen different calendars of the Gregorian Calendar system and a correlation table all on one page. When html technology came out with tables, I figured that I could duplicate those calendars for the web. Thus, was born the original version of the Virtual Perpetual Calendars (VPC) back in December 1995.

Since then, I have added various other reference items. The US and Canadian Holidays, the Millenium and Centuries table, the Correlations Matricies (which need to be filled in many other centuries), the Julian Date table, the Seasons table, the Zodiac Reference and more. Some of these ideas are my own, others are built based on ideas from those who have sent me notes over the past couple of years. If you look at my Notes page you will see that I have lots of additional ideas that I have yet to put together. However, do not think you shouldn't send me more ideas. I get motivated to do more when I receive e-mail. And those ideas that are simple to implement, will more than likely be done sooner than later.

I do wish to thank a few special folks who have been especially supportive in my efforts for this site. this includes people both local to me, and those who I have never met other than through the net. these include Elizabeth Morgan-Kenedy - a friend from the office who has been very supportive, Denise Volpe - a internet friend who pushed to get the upgrade to 2.0.0.0 (new format) among other things, and Christopher Sidebottom - a 3rd grader who prompted me to improve the html and provide internal comments.

The Updates page will list those people that requested specific things, and when I got those done.

Over the past few years I have let the site linger. I have not been doing much updating of the site. I still get occasional e-mails with a question or comment. Some of the times I actually have made an update without doing a proper acknowledgement. This past month (August 2004) I have been prodded out of my cave to actually tinker with the site more. Most of the updates done in August have been to bring the pages of the site up to HTML 4.01 Transtional Standards Compliance, and pushing them onto XHTML 1.0 Transitional Standards Compliance. And making proper use of Cascading Style Sheets. I was asked "Why transitional, versus strict?". The answer is currently two parts:

1. Transitional Standards are easier to reach, and with the site as many pages as it is (about 50 pages, some with very dense data) maintained by just me, it is a stepping stone.
2. HTML 4.01 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict do not allow for the <div> tag to have a align="center" tag. CSS supports text-align="center", but I have not figured out how to do block alignment to center the tables within the window frame.

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