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  "thread": {
    "id": 1758,
    "subject": "A 13 months and New Year's Day",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-08-20T10:43:03+00:00",
    "last": "1999-08-20T10:43:03+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0070@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-08-20T10:43:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A 13 months and New Year's Day",
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          "text": "Okay, so let's say that we have a calendar of thirteen months (here called\n\"First Month,\" \"Second Month,\" etc.; but this is just for our own tracking\npurposes--the Commonwealth would certainly never use such numbering), each\nof exactly 28 days, totaling 364 days.  Because the solar year is roughly\n365.25 days, this means that each year the calendar year will be \"off\" by\nan additional 1.25 days.\n\nYEAR ZERO\nFirst Month: New Moon (Dec 22--Winter Solstice) = New Year's Day\nSecond Month: New Moon\n.\n.\nThirteenth Month: New Moon (Nov 24)\n\nYEAR ONE\nFirst Month: New Moon (Dec 21).  Month from Dec 21 to Jan 18.\nSecond Month: New Moon (Jan 19) = New Year's Day.\n.\n.\netc.\n\nYEAR TWELVE\nFirst Month: New Moon (Dec 6)\nSecond Month: New Moon (Jan 4) = New Year's Day\n.\n.\netc.\n\nYEAR TWENTY-THREE (or year 22.4?)\nFirst Month: New Moon (Dec 22--Winter Solstice) = New Year's Day\n.\n.\netc.\n\n(You can see why I insist that the Commonwealth not take numerical names\nfor the months, since in Year One the year doesn't properly start until\nSecond Month.)\n\nThus, in terms of our calendar, Commonwealth NYD falls between Dec 22 and\nJan 19, the middle being somewhere around Jan 4.\n\nWhile fuzzy and flexible, it is rather good for a neo-lunar calendar.\n\nIf the above is roughly true, and if feast days are likewise fuzzy, then\nfeast days have the same 28 day range.  Which can cause ambiguities at the\nborders of the seasons.\n\nPlus, if that 23 year cycle implied above is valid, this could have a\nbearing on the text directly (because it seems likely that Severian is 23\nyears old when he becomes autarch).\n\n=mantis="
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