Re: units of measurement problems and solutions

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:45:33 +0200, Irina Rempt <irina@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Jonathan L Cunningham wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:18:29 +1200, zeborah@xxxxxxxxx (Zeborah) wrote:
>>
>> [calendars]

>>>Neep neep. I could go on about this calendar for pages, so I'll stop
>>>now.
>>
>> I won't ... :-)

>Ooh, calendar neepery! I actually ended up with seven-day weeks because

>I know that this makes for 368 days; perhaps their world goes around the
>sun, or the sun around the world (who knows, perhaps it does in that
>universe; even their own scholars don't agree, though it's a point of
>scientific rather than religious debate) a tiny bit slower.

Or maybe the days are a tiny bit shorter ... if they were 10 minutes
and 45 ish seconds shorter there would be exactly 368 days in the
year. I don't think anyone would notice (except I'd find it 11 minutes
harder to get up in the mornings :-).

>The Temple of Naigha doesn't do weeks but has a full lunar calendar (like
>the Muslim calendar) instead. That is, moon-months move through the year.

Without an impossibly amazing coincidence, the year will never be an
exact number of days, so some kind of leap year calendar, or else some
correction, is always going to be necessary. If you *did* have 365.25
day years, but always started your year at the vernal equinox, one
easy solution is to drop the last couple of days from your calendar
(i.e. the last week of the year is only four or five days) -- a "short
week".

Although there's no need for it -- like you said, there's no reason
why the year can't be (very close to exactly) 368 days.

Jonathan

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