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Re: Calendar Systems

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 21:15
On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:13 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> 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.
Cool! I like the 144 x 144... do they count in base 12?
>> 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.
Nope, 13/14! :-D Although from one Dzu"Fa"Ri (New Year's Day; Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice) there are only ever 12 or 13 lunar cycles, the (one) lunar cycle that surrounds New Years Day itself is split up into *two separate months* - Jalág before Dzu"Fa"Ri and Ghalúb after it. -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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