When the big hand says Thirteen Moon Calendar

Canada Free Press ^ | 8-27-04 | Judi McLeod

[JenB]

On Star Trek it makes sense - hundreds of species will have hundreds of calendars and unless Earth's conquering planets - in Star Trek, we aren't - we can't just make them adopt ours.

What relation does an Earth-year have to a year on Vulcan, say?

[Melas]

The ancients actually didn't. Most of them had 13 month calenders. It's the catholics who messed things up. No disrespect meant. But ol' Julian and Gregory made a mess of things.

[NicknamedBob]

I'm in favor of calendar reform.

It's my prime example of how STUPID we are.

Example: An Octopus has eight tentacles.
. . . . . An Octagon has eight sides or angles.

. . . . . And October is the tenth month.

Same thing for September, October, November, and December (Decimal System -- Twelfth Month!!!). All the months which refer to numbers refer to the wrong numbers ... and it's been that way for two thousand years!

We're the premier species on this planet, right? Well, it's a very small planet!!!

P.S. 2006 would be a good year to institute calendar reform. It starts on a Sunday.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Did you miss the episode about The Son?

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

All right, so what were the two months that were added to push December from 10 to 12?

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Wait a minute . . .

July and August?

July for Julius Ceasar and August for Augustus Ceasar?

[NicknamedBob]

July and August.

Named after Roman Emporers.

[NicknamedBob]

Well, they probably did some Emporting.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

OK, so why would the Church name two months for emperors instead of saints, apostles etc?

[kcar]

13 Accounting month-end closes?!! There will be war first!!

[searchandrecovery]

First, they got it wrong - the calander should be based on the metric system, somehow.

Second, I wonder what the names of these new months will be? Can only guess that one of them will be Annan-uary.

Thrid, just another step towards one world government - wonder who would set the holidays? Wonder what they would be?

[Khurkris]

Whennna tha moom hits yer eye
Likea bigga pizza piiiie
ATSA AMOREeeeeeeee....

[NicknamedBob]

Julian date calendar reform almost pre-dated Christianity.

Ol' Caesar was not a Christian. And Augustus was a bit of a cut-up. The Brute.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

So the Julian calendar added the two new months and the Church calendar added 11 days?

[lightman]

Same thing for September, October, November, and December (Decimal System -- Twelfth Month!!!). All the months which refer to numbers refer to the wrong numbers ... and it's been that way for two thousand years!

Not quite 2000 years. Part of the Gregorian reform of 1582 was to move the beginning of the new year from March 25 (the Feast of the Annunciation) to January 1. In the Julian calendar September was indeed the seventh month after the beginning of the New Year, and so forth. March was the first (and last) month; April the second, and so on.

The Julian system was premised on the belief that the world was created on the same day that Jesus was conceived and the same day on which He was later Crucified.

[NicknamedBob]

"...the calander should be based on the metric system, somehow."

Babylonians figured out that twelve worked better. More divisors, as mentioned above.

They also gave us the sixty minute hour, and 360 degrees in a circle. That's part of the reason we work with a year of nearly 360 -- (365.25)

The day has 1440 minutes of sixty seconds. I don't think we'd want to change the length of the minute, but we could use hours of 144 minutes.

[NicknamedBob]

Essentially correct. The Gregorian calendar also took into account a four-hundred year adjustment to the leap year.

It's pretty accurate, considering.

[MrLee]

Doesn't the Bible say something about the anti-christ changing time?

[NicknamedBob]

"In the Julian calendar September was indeed the seventh month ..."

Thanks for the update.

I feel lots smarter, now. ;)

[Jeff Gordon]

This sounds like an ego masturbation worthy of many of our own State legislative busy bodies.