Re: samhain?

On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:09 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> The old scheme is admittedly more interesting, but for "interesting" I
> prefer to switch calendars entirely. :) The Jews, for instance, change
> their year number in the fall - rather boringly on the first day of a
> month, and on the day called "New Year's" (or, rather, "Head of the
> Year") - but less boringly, they *number* their months starting in the
> *spring*, so that the calendar year begins in month 7 instead of month
> 1.  So even though AM 5765 just began in September, the day about to
> begin at sundown as I write this message is the 20th day of the 8th
> month.
> -Marcos

Although no one actually refers to the months by their original number
names anymore.  It's not like people are writing the date as 8/20/5764
or 20-8-5764 or 5764.8.20 or anything like that.  It's always _K'
(mar)hheshvan, (H')TShS"H_, with the numbers written as letters and the
month-name written out.  It would definitely be cool if people wrote
20-8-5764, though :-) .  Or even 20-2-5764, counting from the "New Year
for years".
Although how would you number the intercalated month in leap years?


-Stephen (Steg)
  "it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission."
      ~ walter slovotsky, _guardians of the flame_

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