Re: YYMMDD (was: Re: Láadan)

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 08:36:17AM +0100, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> t., waiting for this thread to change it a "date-format(s) for my conlang"
My high-school conlang mysteriously (no explanation) uses Mayan numerals
for its calendar.  Format is (non-proportional font will help here):

               ..
                                  . .
     alita              ardru     ___
               ...

That's "alita 43, ardru the 7th", basically.  alita, based on lita "circle",
means "year" (the year is 146 days long, though).  ardru is the name of
the fifth month, and it's the 7th day.

Mayan uses a dot for ones, a line for fives, a glyph of a shell for 0, and
a vertical place-value system in base 20.  (I'm grateful to my parents for
having a lot of really neat books lying around in my impressionable youth...)

Amanda