Re: The New Year

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:13:30 EST, James Landau <Neurotico@...> wrote:

(snipalot)
>For creators of different planets, the
>calendar creates an even more complicated challenge than for creators of
>Terran concultures, for the time the seasons begin will be different from
the
>time they start on Earth, and if you choose to situate the people who speak
>your language on a planet much closer to or farther from its sun than Earth
>is, the year will be a radically different length and years will pass at a
>much different pace than they do on Earth, meaning a year won't correspond
>with a certain single year on that planet. A calendar could have many more
>months if its planet's year was longer.
This problem has arisen (for me) with the calendar of the Kash/Gwr on their
planet, Cindu.  The year is 464 days, nicely divisible into 16 mos. of 29
days each. (I haven't worried about leap years, but should...).  The year
begins on the Northern Hemisphere's Spring Equinox.

They are currently in year 753 New Count. They changed from "Old Count" at
the end of 2703, shortly after their nuclear war. A New Start, so to
speak.  There is a draft of a Time Line comparing Cindu/Earth events that I
should work on and put up on the website.  Someday.

The day, however, is 25 hr 18 mins. Terran, so it is complicated for
mathematically-challenged me to equate a Cindu date with a Terran date.
Surely it could be done... Since I am (IIRC, not having the notes handy) 50
Cindu years old, at some point I decided arbitrarily that 1/1/703 would
correspond to my birthday, May 23, 1934, but that's as far as it has ever
gone.