Re: WHAT calendar for the current year 2012

On Jan 28, 2008 3:36 AM, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:

> Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > Ok, I assume that Σάβατο is Saturday?  So in WHAT they're still using
> the
> > Julian calendar?
>
> Firstly, this is surely a non-sequitur. Saturday is the biblical Sabbath
> - it has nothing to do with either the Julian or Gregorian calendar.

Obviously.  Sorry, let me go back and check my assumptions at the door.

I had assumed that the WHAT calendar would be roughly the same as the one
that arose IRL in the West.  When I looked at the first month of the linked
calendar and noticed that the correspondence of day to date was a day off
from that of the current month in the Gregorian calendar, the first thing I
did was check to see if the week was listed in the order I was accustomed to
(e.g. Sunday - Saturday), since a simple shift there would have explained
the apparent discrepancy as purely visual.  Based on Σάβατο = Saturday, that
was not the case.  The next likely explanation was that, in a Hellenocentric
world, they were still using the analogue of the Julian calendar, as the
Eastern Orthodox continue to do for religious purposes today; the current
difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars is 13 days, which maps
to a 1-day difference in weekdays in the same direction as that shown on the
WHAT calendar.


-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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