Re: Date and time on Cindu: yearly update

Mark Reed wrote:
>
>When a leap day falls in the spring, is inserted before the first day
>of the year.  Which year is it considered part of? That is, if year 4
>was a spring leap year, did the leap day fall just before the first
>day of year 4, or just before the first day of year 5?
I had been assuming that the pre-Spring equinox leap day came between the
last day of the old year (day numbered 28 [actually 29], month 16 year N)
and New Year's Day 1/1/N+1-- so in a sense that day ("waiting day") doesn't
belong to either year. I think we have to say that it sort-of replaces New
Years Day, but isn't of course called that or "the first", but it does
increase year N+1 by one day. So I say 700 was a 465-day year, not 699.
(Let's keep 700 as sort of a starting point for counting leap years in the
present century.)

And let's say that if leap day occurs pre-Autumn equinox, it also precedes
the 1st of month 9. Then--
>And does a summer or winter leap day still fall in the first month of
>the season, just in the middle of the month?
Yes.

>  Is such a leap day the day before Cinjurak or the day after?
It could be either. but since the others precede the 1st (day lembrim), let
it follow cinjurak, and thus precede lembrim 15th.

In a previous post, I agreed that the leap day could advance one quarter
every 6-7-6- cycle. By diligent work with pencil and paper I've worked this
out:
700 leap day at 1/1
706 leap day at cinj./5 (Summer solst.)
713 "    "   at 1/9 (Autumn equ.
719 "    "   at cinj./13 (winter solst.)
725 .....  once again at 1/1
732 ........at cinj./5
738 ..... at 1/9
744 .....at cinj./13
751 ....at 1/1
757 ....at cinj./5  (by total accident, just what I said in my orignal
post!!!!)
763 .... 1/9
770 .... cinj./13
776 .... back to 1/1

I hope I'm not bollixing this up totally...............

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