Re: Date and time on Cindu

Mark's work has been enormously revelatory to me too-- he's come up with
things I never even imagined..!

Rather amusingly, Cindu's date/calendar etc. came about totally by
accident-- when I first conceived the place, I decided the planet would be
--slightly larger than Earth
--its sun slightly larger/hotter than ours, and therefore (to have a
slightly hotter but still tolerable earth-like climate)
--its distance from the sun had to be slightly greater (approx. 103M miles)
--its day and year would therefore be longer than ours-- the year of 464
days was simply pulled out of thin air (conveniently, 16 months of 29 days;
to allow for 7-day weeks, there had to be an extra unnumbered day in the
month; the day of 25.3 Earth hours = 20 Cindu hours was similary arbitrary.)
At one point I considered 5 5-day weeks with extra days in weeks 1-2-4-5.

Then when I discovered the Cal State World Building site and plugged some
figures into the formulae there, lo and behold, the orbit worked out to ....
464 days.

Leap years were added later.

I still don't know how the slightly greater axial tilt (27+ degrees vs. our
23.5 degrees) affects weather patterns.........That part wasn't included in
the WB site :-(
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>From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
>OK, since there's some interest, I'll keep sending at least some of
>this stuff to the list, but duly marked as OT.
>
>For calculation purposes, I plan to represent a Cindu date as a list
>of four integers: year (new count), month (1-16), week (1-4), day
>(1-7).
>
That's OK by me, though the "native" format up to now has been (time) day -
month - year; I imagine you're trying to make this easy
computer-wise......If necessary, I'll change the data in the website.

I haven't thought about how the Kash deal with giving dates... Since every
month is the same, one might say, e.g. "I'll see you on second-Lembrim [or
Lembrim-2?]" (1st day of week 2, i.e. the 8th) or "The meeting is scheduled
for third-Lalap" (7th day of week 3, the 21st).

Endless supply of grist for the mill...........
(snip the rest, all good)

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