Re: Concalendars (< Holiday greetings)

<deinx nxtxr> wrote:
>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Mills
>
>> ...to all and sundry.
>>
>> At Noon EST tomorrow, 25 Dec. 2008, on Cindu it will be
>> approx. 10:44 (44 mins past midday), imbar 26 çupromés 757
>> p.v.-- 5th day of the week, an ordinary working day, of the
>> 11th month (of 16); mid-"autumn" but probably still warm,
>> perhaps beginning to rain, in the tropics where my Kash
>> people live (what's the weather like in Australia in, say,
>> late October? Their island is at roughly the same position.......)
>
> I've been contemplating a new calendar for Deini.  I'm thinking about making
> the new year start on the Winter solstice, but can't decide on what to make
> year 1.  Being a personal language, I think it should coincide roughly with
> my birth or maybe conception, but should year 1 be the year I was born, the
> year before, or the year after?
>
> I'm thinking the year should be broken into four seasons with the days
> numbered 1-~91.  At some point I'll have to insert a leap day, and I may
> declare that some sort of special holiday.  There is still a seven-day week
> though I already have new names for each day.
I used a different model in Jarda -- each year has a two-part name, like
the names of the months or days of the week, instead of a number. 2008
is the metal-raven year, and 2009 will be the glass-dolphin year.
(Obvious similarities to the Chinese calendar.) One name repeats in a
12-year cycle, and the other in a 7-year cycle, so overall, the year
names repeat in an 84-year cycle. By convention the crystal-wren year is
the first year of the cycle, although that only matters on larger time
scales when you need to deal with time scales of more than 84 years.

I'm not sure if I ever came up with a numbering scheme or names for the
84-year cycles. But I did arrange it so that leap year day usually falls
on my birthday. I've been thinking of starting a new personal language
-- maybe I'll re-adopt the Jarda calendar or something like it.

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