Re: CHAT: Telling time (wasRe: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems fromconlangs))

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> 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.  It accumulates
> fast.  Now it has occurred to me that they could perhaps have a leap month
> every twenty-eight years.
You could use the Babylonian/Jewish/Chinese pattern of having 7 13-month
years and 12 12-month years in every cycle of 19 years; 19 years equals
almost exactly 255 lunar months.  That is easier to keep track of (who
remembers to patch up things every 28 years?) and keeps things closer
to the sun.

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