Re: CHAT: Telling time (wasRe: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems fromconlangs))
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 2:34 |
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> with the solution to a con-calendar problem of my own. One of my
> concultures (the same one that has the syllabic consonants) reckons time on
> a strict lunar calendar, 13 months to the year. I've been wondering what I
> was going to do with that one-day discrepancy every year.
Sorry, but what one-day discrepancy? 13 lunar months is about 384
days, which is a 19-day discrepancy!
Thirteen 28-day months adds up to 364 days, but 28 days is a full
day and a half less than a mean lunar month, so the months would
get out of synch with the lunar phases faster than the year would
get out of phase with the seasons.
-Mark
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