Re: Calendar Systems

Hallo!

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:46:46 +0200,
Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Geoff Horswood wrote:
> > What about leap years?  There are various ways of doing this, too:  the
> > Hebrew calendar, IIRC, added a whole repeat month once every 4 years.
>
> The Hebrew calendar add*s* a whole repeat month 7 times in a 19-year
> cycle (years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, 19).
>
>
> ConCalendars:
The Old Albic calendar is also lunisolar, using the Metonic cycle
of 19 years and 235 months (i.e., 7 out of 19 years have a leap-month)
just like the Hebrew calendar.  I haven't worked out the details
(month names, which month the leap-month is inserted after and
in which 7 of the 19 years, etc.) yet, though.

The year 1 in the Old Albic calendar is 1823 BCE (actually, part of 1823
and part of 1822 BCE, since the new year begins on the first new moon
after the spring equinox), so 1 AD is 1824 in the Old Albic calendar,
and we are now in the year 3827, unless some kind of fencepost error
occured to me).  There is no attested historical event corresponding
to that date, it is the date of the legendary land-taking of the Elves
in Britain (according to the myth, they arrived in 144 ships, each
carrying 144 persons).  Long (historical) periods of time are reckoned
in 144-year cycles.

> (cut-n-paste'd and edited from an old posting)
>
> The Rokbeigalmki calendar is soli-lunar, containing 13 months in normal
> years and 14 months in leap years.
Surely you mean 12 months in normal years and 13 months in leap years?
AFAIK, Middle-earth has the same month and year lengths as our world.

Greetings,

Jörg.

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