Re: Old Earth Calendar

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> [mailto:CALNDR-L@...]On Behalf Of Palmen, KEV (Karl)
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 9:02 AM
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> Subject: Old Earth Calendar
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> Dear Calendar People
>
> The New Earth Calendar got me thinking about what the Old
> Earth calendar would be like.
>
> Like the New Earth Calendar, the Old Earth calendar had
> months of 28 days, but instead of a leap week, it had a leap
> month also of 28 days. A common year had 13 months and a leap
> year had 14 months.
>
> The 13 ordinary months were named:
> Azo, Boyo, Cox, Dow, Evo, Fuo, Goto, Hoso, Iro, Joqo, Kop, Loo & Mono.
> and the leap month as named Naf.
>
> Leap years occurred alternately once every 22 and 23 years,
> so giving a mean year of 365.244444... days.
>
> The Not So Old Earth Calendar was the same as the Old Earth
> Calendar, except that once every 13 leap years there was one
> leap year that was 23 years from both the neighbouring leap
> years. This created a 293-year cycle of 13 leap years whose
> leap months total up to one whole common year.  Indeed each
> of the 13 leap months took a name from a different ordinary
> month of the year so they could easily be counted to 13. The
> successive leap months starting with the leap month of the
> leap year that was 23 years from both its neighbours were named thus:
> Gotonaf, Azonaf, Hosonaf, Boyonaf, Ironaf, Coxnaf, Joqonaf,
> Downaf, Kopnaf, Evonaf, Loonaf, Fuonaf & Mononaf.
>
> Then someone thought of placing each leap month straight
> after the month it was named from (e.g. Azonaf after Azo)  
> rather than at the end of the year as done previously and lo
> and behold, every 294th month was a leap month!
>
> Karl
>
> 08(02(09
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