Re: Calendar Systems

Geoff wrote:
> How do you arrange your calendar (assuming it's a non-standard one)?
In those Rozhendi notes I found which led to my climate question post,
there was also an outline of a calendar, which I'd totally forgotten I'd
created. Apparently, the traditional Rozhen calendar is a 365-day solar
calendar like we have, but just as the year is divided into 52 weeks of
7 days, so it is divided into 7 months of 52 days. Now 7 x 52 = 364, and
the 365th day -- the last day of the year -- is a holiday/feast day
which celebrates the end of the old year and the beginning of the new.
In leap years, a second feast day is added before day 1 of the new year.
Also the Rozhen new year, the first day of the first month, is March 21
on our calendar (originally the vernal equinox, but later fixed to that
exact date on our calendar). So the feast day(s) are Feb. 28-29. There
were no Rozhendi month names given, though, so I guess I never got
around to creating them.

Now having said all that, I have since decided that that calendar is
used only on the Rozhen home islands, which are quite in general
traditionalist; however, the Rozhen diaspora in North America and Europe
(and wherever else they may have gone) uses our 12-month calendar
starting on Jan. 1, but the months all have Rozhendi names, which I
still have to create. :)

Thomas