From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@freeler.nl)
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 19:26:06 EST
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From: "Raymond Mercier" <raymondM@compuserve.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Today is neither Thursday nor Friday
>
> >
> > Michael Everson scripsit:
> >
> > > On 21 December 2012 the Mayan Long Count calendar will tick over from
> > > 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0. Isn't that cool....
> >
>
> --- subject to considerable uncertainty about the alignment between the
> Mayan cycles and our own calendar (I mean the "Ahau constant")
> See my Kairos 3, at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RaymondM/
>
> [I know this is OT, but it is a holiday.]
>
> Raymond Mercier
In your helpfile KAIROS 3.0 it says (in the Arabic calendar description) :
"The months are generally determined in practice by the visibility of the
lunar crescent, although for purposes of calculation there is a general
scheme according to which the month is assumed to have on the average 354
11/30 days."
Usually months are shorter than 354 11/30 days. The only exception I know of
is September, in the year that September never ended.
news:nl.eeuwig.september
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