Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

On 7/13/06, Aidan Grey <taalenmaple@...> wrote:

> The Gaulish Coligney calendar was lunisolar, and so there
> could be a lot variation from year to year on where a
> date fell, from as early as September to as late as
> December (and possible more - I don't remember how
> wide the variation is off the top of my head).
That's an awfully wide variation for a lunisolar calendar.  I don't
know the details of the Coligney, but it's reportedly on par,
accuracywise, with the older (pre-5th century) Hebrew calendar.
That's not as good as the modern Hebrew calendar, but even with leap
months I wouldn't expect a September-to-December range for a given
lunisolar dat.  There shouldn't be more than a two-month variance.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>