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  "thread": {
    "id": 3787,
    "subject": "DOORS: lunar months",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2003-01-21T14:31:21+00:00",
    "last": "2003-01-21T16:41:08+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2746@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-21T14:31:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) DOORS: lunar months",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "David Duffy quoted me and wrote:\nAnother datapoint is Laura Nomos (nomos means \"a lawed one,\" i.e., a\nlawyer!) and her fur coat in storage for 26 months (169).  This suggests\n790 (days) / 8.25 (O-time multiple) = 96 days (3 months).  (I don't know,\nbut wouldn't storage be usually for longer than that?  Maybe not: maybe\nstorage is only for Summer?)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Not having read TAD, are we perhaps talking lunar months here?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Probably.  If the question is \"what number(s) am I using for a month in\nthese figurings,\" I've been pretty lax -- sometimes using 28 days, often\nusing 30 days.\n\nNo, wait: if the Otherworld months were strictly lunar, then there would be\n13 months to their calendar -- we have no direct evidence of this.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2751@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-21T16:41:08+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) DOORS: lunar months",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0301-2746@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Mantis wrote:\nNo, wait: if the Otherworld months were strictly lunar, then \nthere would be 13 months to their calendar -- we have no \ndirect evidence of this."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Not necessarily ... consider the Hebrew calendar, which has\ntwelve lunar months and adds a thirteenth \"leap\" month when \nneeded -- it's needed in seven years out of the calendar's\nnineteen year cycle. But it isn't a \"thirteenth month,\" as \nsuch, it's a repeated month -- they have two months of Adar.\nGo figure. _Plus_, there are actually eight different possible\nlengths for the year, due to rules about what day of the week\nthe year can start on and other things. (Normal years can\nhave from 353 to 356 days; leap years from 382 to 385.)"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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