Re: Correction to Date and time on Cindu

Robert Wilson wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2003 01:09:29 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
> > Can't get his own conlang/world right dept....
> >
> > "...1905 at night (less than an hour till tomorrow)...."
> >
> > that would be:  "barely two hours till tomorrow."  (Actually, l hr
> > 45 mins.
> > Cindu time.The day has 20 hours (of 50 mins) and begins at midnight,
> > which
> > is called 0100.
>
> are the minutes and hours the same as on earth?
No, nothing is the same, time-wise. Their year is longer 464 local "days" (=
about 489 Earth days), an even 16 mos. of 29 days; the day is longer =25 hr
18 mins Earth divided into 20 local "hours" (about 76 mins Earth), of 50
local mins. of 100 local secs. each.  I've got it all written down exactly,
to 5 or 6 decimal places, somewhere, so it's not _too_ complicated to work
out (ha! I usually have to do it 2 or 3 times to be sure...).  I'm sure a
simple little program could be made to do it...but alas, not by me.
(pehan year; açurak month; lero day; aro hour; nasa minute; tiki second)

 ...for me to convert the
> time here to kontoko time, i have to figure out the number of seconds
> from a known time, convert the seconds to kontoko "seconds" (which are
> equal to about 2/3 of a second), and then split it up into "minutes",
> "hours", days, months, and years...
 I go about it just the reverse, starting with day equivalents, and don't
worry too much about the seconds. No doubt less precise, but close
enough........

Once upon a time, I actually learned a little Basic, when I had an Apple 2;
thought it would help organize a lot of comparative Indonesian material, or
keep track of a lot of short term stock transactions, but somehow I never
got to that stage.  Greatest accomplishment was getting it to generate all
CVCV forms from /p t k a i u/-- that was called Pupi-taal.   Then I got
discouraged and even forgot how to access material on floppies; finally I
donated it to the local school system and took it off my income tax. Didn't
go near a computer for another 10 years.