When the big hand says Thirteen Moon Calendar

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

[LNewman]

Kewl ... I just received my new Mayan Galactic Signature from The Galactic Hardware Store. You may now address me as "Blue Cosmic Eagle." ;)

[Fester Chugabrew]

Sorry, but 13 just doesn't cut it in metric terms.

[Verginius Rufus]

Before Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar and gave the year 365 days (with an extra day every fourth year), the Romans had a 12-month calendar but inserted an extra month every so often to keep the years in line with the solar year, more or less (at the time of Caesar's reform they had somehow gotten 90 days off).

March was originally the first month and some of the month names show this--September was the 7th month (Latin septem means seven), October was the eighth month (octo = eight), etc. Later they began to treat January 1st as the beginning of the year.

July and August were called Quintilis and Sextilis before being renamed in honor of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar. Some later emperors had months named for them but the names didn't last.

[Trillian]

.. and the thirteenth month shall be known as Smarch.
Lousy Smarch weather, brrr!

[Trillian]

Lol, a Festivus for the rest of us!

[auboy]

Simple solution. Why don't we just make it Miller Time.

[Salvation]

**Would it be that you are anti-Christian????**

Totally correct, there tech.

[Salvation]

**Yes, and if each month begins on Sunday we could have Friday the 13th 13 times every year.**

LOL!

[Salvation]

**13 Accounting month-end closes?!! **

It's bad enough with 12, isn't it? Think of inventory too.

[Salvation]

**More divisors, as mentioned above.**

Thinking along that line -- what would a half year, a quarterly tax file date, bimonthly, etc. etc.

[Salvation]

**Vernal Equinox) New Year; **

What is the "Chinese New Year" based on?

[Salvation]

Scary!

[Natural Law]

It also means 13 mortgage payment per year!

[unlearner]

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

Daniel 7:25 "He shall ...think to change times and laws." Definitely ascribed to anti-christ, but the meaning is not very obvious.

[HitmanLV]

I never thought about it much, but what would happen to birthdays and anniversaries?

[Melas]

I never thought of that. That would suck.

[lightman]

I have no clue...I'm unashamedly Christian/Western biased and have next to no interest in the calendars of other cultures.

[searchandrecovery]

Act Globally, think Universally.

LOL! Elegant.

[HitmanLV]

I think the calendar is safe, so we won't have to deal with it!

[searchandrecovery]

Simple -- a 100 day year with each day 10 hours long. Of course it will take some adjustment.

That's It! And, it gets rid of that whole AM/PM thing, which nobody really likes.