Re: OT: CONCULTURE: Ayeri calendar again

Manisu!

Yay, I think I am ready with my moon based calendar now.
I've had some problems due to calculation errors which are
hopefully fixed now. There may still be a problem with the
leap years, though. It's rather leap months, but anyway, I
hope the computer will calculate them correctly on its own.
The result of my work up to now can be seen in my sig: It's
a script which automatically converts the current time into
the Ayeri moon calendar system (Curan Tertanyan). The text
in the sig breaks down as follows:

  Eda- taman- on        le            ma-  tahan-arà
  This.letter.TRG(inan) TRG:PAT(inan) past.write.3sg(inan):a

  [beneno- ea  ei- tyabo] ena [15-A7-58-10-2-14-18]  ena
  [morning.LOC OBL.late ] GEN [17-127-68-12-2-16-20] GEN

  Curan    Tertanyan.
  Counting Tertanyan.

  This letter was written in the late morning of
  17-127-68-12-2-16-20 according to the Tertanyanian
  Counting.

The parts in brackets are variable.

The date is encoded as follows (base-12 here):

  15  --  'century' (conjunction between the two moons,
                    occuring about each 108 years)
  A7  --  year Colun
  58  --  year Vicama
  10  --  month Colun
   2  --  month Vicama
  14  --  day Colun
  18  --  day Vicama

Acutally, it'd be enough to give the date for one moon, but
this is the 'official' ISO-like norm.

The error I made in my last mail where I figured out when
the UNIX epoch would start in the other calendar was that I
said there were only 3 'hours' per day. But that is wrong!
Since 1 Arecan second (asec) = 1.2 Earth seconds (esec),
the day must be 24ehrs/1.2 = 20 ahrs long. The division
into 3 parts is only exists for telling whether it's
morning, afternoon or evening/night. Accordingly, the start
of the UNIX count was in the late morning of
17-127-68-12-2-16-20 in fact.

Yours,
Carsten

   ... now without fever, but with a running nose instead.

--
Edatamanon le matahanarà benenoea eityabo ena
15-A7-58-10-2-14-18 ena Curan Tertanyan.
» http://www.beckerscarsten.de?conlang=ayeri

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