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Re: Programming a calendar system

From:Carsten Becker <post@...>
Date:Saturday, May 1, 2004, 11:04
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@MAIL.COM <mailto:markjreed@...>>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Programming a calendar system


 > > ... I guess the sky isn't still blue anymore thus? => The sun is
white.
 >
 > The sky would still be blue; an Earthlike atmosphere will always
result
 > in a blue sky, no matter what the spectrum of the star.  And the sun's
 > spectrum would be more toward the red end, but we'd still see it as
 > white light, and eyes which evolved on the planet would definitely
still
 > see it as white light.

I'm glad you didn't misunderstand me! I thought the colour of the sky
might have something to do with the sun's colour.

 > As far as the calendar goes, do you want to rebase on -14 (15 BC) or
 > leave it based on -986?

No, it's OK like that! Thank you. 4900 years are more than enough space
to fill with con-history!

Carsten