Re: Calendar Systems

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.


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