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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Calendars (was Re: Cheese-Louise)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.050413.17178@reed.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 05:04:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov24.050413.17178
- References: <1992Nov20.145325.25818@osf.org> <1992Nov21.233426.17200@reed.edu> <1992Nov23.173833.3126@spdcc.com>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- Tangent boy's faithful sidekick strikes again!
-
- In article <1992Nov23.173833.3126@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
- >>BTW, was Charles Fort gay? He invented a great calendar..
-
- > Is that the one with 13 motnhs of 28 days? Then ouy
- >have either one or two leap days every year
-
- yep! You still want 365.24 days a year - mucking with that would be a
- nightmare. So you have an extra day in the year to fill out the normal
- slack, and than a leap day every four years. These extra days are
- world-wide holidays.
-
- >The bad thing is that there will never be a Blue Moon. Of course
- >there are the months that will have NO Full Moon every now and
- >then...
-
- solar calendars play hell with moon-based religious systems.
-
- >The big question is what to name the 13th month!
-
- I think Fort proposed renaming all the months, but I'm not sure to
- what. We could have a contest. For an initial proposal, I suggest 13
- names of Lovecraft entities. Today would be the 20th day in the month
- of Yog-Sothoth.
-
- >I'm sure that the majorr opponents to this other calendar would be
- >the Church...
-
- ... and business, and government, and the population. No one wants to
- change the calendar. It goes beyond being a pain in the butt - I think
- a lot of people derive some essential sense of identity from knowing
- it is "November 23".
-
- Two hacks I've always wanted to do:
- a digital clock that is tuned to the length of a day on Jupiter's
- equator.
- a UNIX machine that spits out Fortean calendar dates.
-
- OK, so I'm a nerd.
- __
- nelson@reed.edu \/ You stupid vulgar greedy ugly American death sucker
-