Re: Nundin 2000

Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> comunu:

> What if the days don't match up?
> Gregorian days begin at midnight, but Rokbeigalmki days begin at sunrise,
> and the time for that changes every day.
If you assume that the average reader of the web site is on the East Coast
of the U.S. (which has midnight 6 hours past Greenwich Mean Time, Earth's
official time), then the days map more or less exactly.

Yes, that was tongue in cheek.  The Hebrew calendar has a similar problem:
days begin at sunset.  So just do something like this:

1. Rokbeigalmki Month 1 Day 1 until sunrise, then Month 1 Day 2.
1. Rokbeigalmki Month 1 Day 2 until sunrise, then Month 1 Day 3.
1. Rokbeigalmki Month 1 Day 3 until sunrise, then Month 1 Day 4.

But my own advice is that you ignore the problem altogether, since most
people won't even be reading the site until after sunrise.  Heck, now I'm
taking this too seriously -- I mean, what are the ramifications of the
calendar not mapping exactly to Rokbeigalmki days?  Nada, nil, zip.  This is
supposed to be fun! :-)

Also, some people seem to think the 366 day file was meant to apply to all
years.  It's not.  It's just meant to apply to next year.  Obviously, there
are many different length calendar years on Earth, let alone conworlds and
penal planets.

Here's the latest file format information:

-9. Your label for your language
-8. A web link or mailto link you want to point people to.
-7. A brief description (60 characters) of what your language is about.
-6. A copyright notice.
-5. A footnote.  For instance, you might put in "*Technically each day in
this calendar runs from sunrise to sunrise."

Sample:

-9. Dublex
-8. http://langmaker.com/dublex/
-7. Dublex is a loglang with 400 basic roots.
-6. Copyright 1999 by Jeffrey Henning. Used on LangMaker.com by permission.
-5. The Dublex calendar exactly matches the Gregorian calendar.

Oh, one list item:

-4. Please nominate the only auxlang that should be included in the
calendar.  The one with the least votes wins.  In event of a tie, none will
be used.

Best regards,

Jeffrey Henning
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