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DOORS: lunar months

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Michael Andre-Driussi21 Jan 2003, 14:31original as archived

DOORS: lunar months

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David Duffy quoted me and wrote: Another datapoint is Laura Nomos (nomos means "a lawed one," i.e., a lawyer!) and her fur coat in storage for 26 months (169). This suggests 790 (days) / 8.25 (O-time multiple) = 96 days (3 months). (I don't know, but wouldn't storage be usually for longer than that? Maybe not: maybe storage is only for Summer?)

Not having read TAD, are we perhaps talking lunar months here?

Probably. If the question is "what number(s) am I using for a month in these figurings," I've been pretty lax -- sometimes using 28 days, often using 30 days. No, wait: if the Otherworld months were strictly lunar, then there would be 13 months to their calendar -- we have no direct evidence of this. =mantis=

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes21 Jan 2003, 16:41original as archived

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

Not necessarily ... consider the Hebrew calendar, which has twelve lunar months and adds a thirteenth "leap" month when needed -- it's needed in seven years out of the calendar's nineteen year cycle. But it isn't a "thirteenth month," as 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.)

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