Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

Danny Wier wrote:
> This is more a concultural item than a conlang, but the conlang part
> obviously is what nomenclature to use for days, months, years and any other
> calendary measurement of time.
The Kassi use a lunisolar calendar.  Their planet's day is a little
longer than ours (25 hr, 52 min), and the year is considerably longer
(407.8 Earth days).  The calendar works out to almost exactly 378-10/27
planetary days.  In the Second Republic, a solar calendar was created to
replace it, which contained 16 months of 23 or 24 days, with a leap year
on multiples of 3 and years that followed multiples of 27.

Anyhoo, the traditional calendar is a lot more complicated.  To
summarize, there are, in a normal year, 15 months, most of which have 25
days, except for the 5th and 15th which have 24 - the 10th month may
have 25 or 24.  In certain years, 9 out of every 38, there is a 16th
month added.  The year begins with the beginning of Spring.  The Kassi
reckon seasons by the midpoints between the equinoxes and solstices, so
that spring starts at the midpoint between winter solstice and vernal
equinox; traditionally, the second new moon after the winter solstice
was the beginning of the year - the calendrical system was intended to
conform to that.

Details are at http://Nik_Taylor.tripod.com/Conlang/Calendar.html

--
"There's no such thing as 'cool'.  Everyone's just a big dork or nerd,
you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." -
overheard
ICQ: 18656696
AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

Reply