Site of the Day for Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Calendar
No, the List is not about to send its gentle members willy-nilly to a
do-it-yourself calendar creation site. Instead, ever mindful of possible
hangovers from Hogmanay celebrations, the List offers a straightforward
text website which presents an excellent, albeit somewhat technical,
overview of the development of calendars from around the world, or quite
possibly, more than you ever wanted to know about calendars.
"This information is reprinted from the Explanatory Supplement to the
Astronomical Almanac, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, editor, with permission from
University Science Books, Sausalito, CA. - reference for this material from
the website
Since it is only the West and the far-flung Antipodes which are celebrating
the New Year today, it is of some interest to note that billions of the
planet's inhabitants are blithely ignoring these festivities because their
calendars march to a different drum.
Discover how our own calendar developed as well as calendars followed by
other cultures; with this in-depth examination, you may never look at a
calendar in the same way again.
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html
The List wishes all its members a serene and healthy New Year.
A.M. Holm
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