Re: March 21st spring

On Mar 23, 9:15�pm, rich...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin) wrote:
In article <itd803dqalj12bdqm4b1ncvq0ufsm4m...@xxxxxxx>,
Mark McIntyre  <markmcint...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Better slap yourself at the same time. There /are/ no antediluvian
records... Go look the word up in a dictionary if you're unsure.

Surely your own message is an antediluvian record.

I'm not sure what you meant by that but before this subject slides
completely off topic, do any of the capable historians here have any
idea what the decimal Roman calendar was like?

Yes I do know that the length of the year was a matter of political
necessity decided by the Pontifex Maximus or some other bod in their
Senate as the need arose. But such a calendar may not have been
automatically used in agricultural events as well as other just as
mundane necessities.

It is unlikely that you could run a corporate business on a calendar
that could have years with as many as 400 days in it. When Julius
Caesar came to supercede the Senate, he asked for a realistic calendar
and was given the approximate length of the year that was very close
to modern approximations

And until the new claendar he introduced slipped back into political
whim, it had a 10 month zodiac. That is as much as I know on the
subject.

Anyone have any idea how it would have worked?

Any athiests seeking to proselytise their incredible religion might be
kind enough to do it via email. Either that or would they be so kind
to add a rider to the title and save me the bother of reading it? (Any
sent to me of course will be politely ignored.)



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