DOORS: lunar months

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 21 Jan 2003, 16:41 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) DOORS: lunar months
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:41:08 -0700
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Mantis wrote:

> No, wait: if the Otherworld months were strictly lunar, then=3D20
> there would be 13 months to their calendar -- we have no=3D20
> direct evidence of this.

Not necessarily ... consider the Hebrew calendar, which has
twelve lunar months and adds a thirteenth "leap" month when=3D20
needed -- it's needed in seven years out of the calendar's
nineteen year cycle. But it isn't a "thirteenth month," as=3D20
such, it's a repeated month -- they have two months of Adar.
Go figure. _Plus_, there are actually eight different possible
lengths for the year, due to rules about what day of the week
the year can start on and other things. (Normal years can
have from 353 to 356 days; leap years from 382 to 385.)

--Blattid

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