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

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:57:35PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.
235.  19 x 12 + 7 = 235. :)

> That is easier to keep track of (who remembers to patch up things every 28
> years?) and keeps things closer to the sun.
28 years is no big deal.  Who remembers to patch things up every 400 years
in the Gregorian calendar?  (Or, more to the point, who remembers to skip
a leap year every 100 years except for every 400 years when you go 200 years
between such skippage? :))

-Mark