Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

Jake X wrote:
> I heard something about how much more sense it would make if we just had 35
> ten day weeks a year and five days of some kind of new year celebration.
I assume you mean 36 weeks?  The French Revolutionary Calendar was based
on that, 12 months of 30 days, each month divided into 3 10-day weeks,
plus 5 or 6 days at the end.

> I think that anyone making a conculture should just trash that whole system
> and start afresh. If it takes place on an 'alien' world, perhaps make a more
> even system that divides better. For example, 360 days/year and 36 days/
> month, with ten months.
Why?  That wouldn't be very naturalistic for it just happen to be so
even.  Personally, I like complications, as you can see if you check out
the description of my lunisolar calendar
(http://Nik_Taylor.tripod.com/Conlang/Calendar.html).  Logic is boring.
:-)  For that matter, I'm uneasy with the near-exactness of 378-10/27 as
an approximation; a calendar based on that figure would be accurate to a
day in something like 12,000 years.  But, it actually came about purely
by coincidence, I worked out the length of the day and years
separately.  :-)

However, in my human future conculture, a simplified calendar was
created of 12 months of 30 days (12 months is more convenient than 10 -
it allows the year to be divided easily into thirds and quarters), the
days being the same as the Earth day.  No extra days or anything, just a
360-day year, a good easily dividable number that makes for a year
that's sufficiently close to the standard year that there's little
difference.

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