> > Notice that the current USA Labor Day (first Monday in > > September) already occurs exactly 11 weeks and three days > > before Usher Thanksgiving. As Usher points out later, this > > is convenient for college football, which traditionally began > > on Labor Day weekend and ended on Thanksgiving, with enough > > time to play 11 games in between. (The recent practice of > > playing 12 games instead of 11 occurred because in a recent > > year when Labor Day and Thanksgiving were 12 weeks and three > > days apart, colleges scheduled an extra game, then kept on > > scheduling 12 games even when the period between the two > > holidays switched back to 11 weeks and three days.) > > It can't have been terribly recent, since it was FDR who changed > Thanksgiving from "last Thursday in November" to "fourth Thursday in > November" -- supposedly to increase the number of shopping days before > Christmas.
No, he is correct. Labor Day and Thanksgiving can still be (2/7 times) 12 weeks 3 days apart.
Also, my proposal increases the 'Christmas shopping season' by one day on average, and also makes it the same length every year.
