Re: Hebrew calendar direction
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 12, 2005, 15:27 |
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:09:37PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> The Islamic calendar is lunar, not solar. Its seasonal swings are quite
> predictable, though not "ordinary" to anyone using the solar calendar.
Yes, they're predictable (within the one-day-per-month variation caused
by atmospheric vagaries due to the observational basis of the calendar),
but that doesn't change my point, which is that it doesn't make any
sense to have a month named e.g. "first spring" when that month
only falls *in* the spring for about 9 years at a time 35 years apart,
and is just as likely to fall in any other season. :)
-Marcos
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