Re: Concalendrical reference point
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 20:59 |
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And Rosta scripsit:
> This is an unsolved problem of longstanding for Livagian reckoning too.
> On the one hand, naming years by numbers is a method of great utility
> in calculating the time distance between two years, but on the other
> hand the issue of where to locate year 1 is a troublingly arbitrary
> one, for which no decent candidate has yet emerged in my thinking.
Another possibility is to use the Gethenian calendar style (from
Le Guin's _The Left Hand of Darkness_): the current year is always
numbered 1.
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