Re: Calendar Systems

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:
(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.
Each month begins when about 1% of the moon re-appears after the New
Moon.
Years are counted from the day after the Southern Hemisphere Winter
Solstice.  This day is ^Dzuwaurg^Dafal^Dari.hlao^Semoz-a (Dzu"Fa"Ri for
short), "the Festival of the Widening of the Circle of the Sun", i.e.
New Year's Day.
The lunar cycle containing Dzu"Fa"Ri is split up into two months - one
until New Year's Day, the other from New Year's Day until the end of
the cycle.
The extra month is intercalated before the lunar cycle that contains
Dzu"Fa"Ri, making it the 13th month, and the usual 13th (half) month
becomes the 14th month.

The months:
Ghalúb (half-month) /Galu:b/
Gííyal /ga:jjal/ or Giiyál /gajja:l/
Abí~r /abi::4/
Rónewár /4o:nEwa:4/
Dázoom /da:zu\m/
Méíyabat /me:jjabat/
Bélihzar /bE:li\za4/
Yihtáth /ji\ta:T/
Kéwu /kE:wu/
Máánáúr /m&:nO:4/
Valnírva /valni:4va/
Sháánih (my birthday: 13th of Sháánih, year -16) /S&:ni\/
(Yápleg) (intercalated extra month) /ja:plEg/
Jalág (half-month) /dZ)ala:g/

Days begin at sunrise.
Since the Rokbeigalm live in Tolkien's World, which has only an
ambiguous connection to ours, i had to invent a separate year-numbering
system for use *here*:
nga'Aole-ad-a tza'Lesna-a Rokbeigalmki-a (Ao"Le"Ro for short)
"from the Creation of the Rokbeigalmki Language"
which is how my birthday is a negative number ;) .
The year in which i began Rokbeigalmki is considered year 0.

For *here*, everything is calculated according to astronomy programs.
I set the location as New York City (even when i'm on a whole nother
continent, as i am now), and check to see when the Moon begins to be
seen after the New Moon.

Today (sunrise-sunrise, December 1-2, 2004 / 18-19 Kisleiv, 5765) is:
suddruhniiyuh-a tza'méíyabat, tei nga'ao"le"ro
(or in a shorter form used when i date webpages: 19 Méíyabat, 8AoLeRo)

The Rokbeigalmki calendar doesn't use weeks.  When necessary, i
translate day-names into numbers for it.

Most of the month names don't mean anything (yet).
The exceptions are:
Ghalúb: short for ^Ghalub^Semoz, "sun-rise"
Jalág: short for ^Jalag^Semoz, "sun-descent"
Yapleg: seemingly related to the root |plek|, '(to) fall'

The other months of the Rokbeigalmki calendar are actually based off of
the months for a concalendar me and my brother made a long time ago for
our short-lived role playing game.  In it, the calendar was completely
decimal, so there were 10 months (the planet had no moon).  8 of them
were named somehow after the 8 sentient races of the RPG setting, and
the other two represented the earth and the sky.  Sháánih is named
after the sun of the RPG world's solar system, Shaana.  The days of the
week in the RPG's calendar were named after atmospheric phenomena and
other members of the Shaanain (/S@'nejn/) solar system.

The months were:
Gaeal (the planet)
Hobbiro (the Halflings)
Ronewäré (the Dros; i.e. Drows pronounced with /ow/ instead of /&w/)
[accented on the A: /r\on@'warej/]
Kazdum (the Dwarfs)
Maybnotte (the Shapeshifters; mix of Star Trek changelings and giant
amoebas)
Bellazarre (the Naiads; merpeople)
Yatothe (the Ents; more like David Brin's Kanten than Tolkienic Ents)
Qendii (the Elfs)
Manaer (the Humans)
Valnirva (the sky)

The days of the week were:
Shaanday, Renboday, Cloday, Sterday, Meiterday, Hathesday, Daterday,
Renaday, Dlorday, and Kayladay.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "the main purpose of the pyramid is to say
   'my unique pyramid is sky high and made of white marble.
    i do not share it with anyone'."
      ~ andrew nowicki

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