It is little short of brilliant….
Put t=GMST in the command line, and the Lady comes up in Sidereal Time,
ticking away in Sidereal seconds.
It was not exactly obvious that it would do it. I have had so much difficulty
trying to set up and regulate a master clock to Sidereal time, and Lady Heather
You knew it would be coming..
A discussion over lunch brought up the question of precisely WHEN this
Maya calendar rollover/civilization ending event would occur. It's not
enough to just say dec 21st.. Does the event occur at the beginning of
the day, end of the day, in which local time
In message 50cf7327.2050...@earthlink.net, Jim Lux writes:
Anybody have any decent links to go hunting for?
Have you checked Calendrical Calculations ?
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And it's on my birthday, too. So should I open my presents at breakfast
instead of dinnertime/ Will I get cake???
:-)
merry Christmas to all of you...
DonL
Jim Lux
You knew it would be coming..
A discussion over lunch brought up the question of precisely WHEN this
Maya calendar
and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com
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[time-nuts] MesoAmerican calendars, Solstice, etc.
You knew it would be coming..
A discussion over lunch brought up the question of precisely WHEN this
Maya calendar rollover/civilization ending event would occur. It's not
enough to just
On 12/17/12 12:03 PM, Don Latham wrote:
And it's on my birthday, too. So should I open my presents at breakfast
instead of dinnertime/ Will I get cake???
:-)
merry Christmas to all of you...
As the sun rises over the heel stone at Stonehenge, I should think..
After all:
In ancient times...
On 12/17/12 12:33 PM, kevin.bi...@qc.cuny.edu wrote:
In the ethnographic record, the solstice is not a point in time, but the
day of the sun's shortest path. I'm not sure of what the start of the day
was. The Mayan word for day, kin, seems to refer to the entire movement
of the sun from
the winter sun rises 180 degrees from the heel stone, don't it? through
the trilithon...
but yeah. I'd like to be there once for winter solstice sunrise. Been
there to visit back when one could walk around...
Don
Jim Lux
On 12/17/12 12:03 PM, Don Latham wrote:
And it's on my birthday, too. So
BTW, Lady Heather has support for several versions of the Mayan and Aztec
calendars. Also Druid, Herbrew, Islamic, Indian, and many others.
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But does it have an output of Sidereal Time?
cheers,
Neville Michie
A Merry Season to all.
On 18/12/2012, at 11:02 AM, Mark Sims wrote:
BTW, Lady Heather has support for several versions of the Mayan and Aztec
calendars. Also Druid, Herbrew, Islamic, Indian, and many others.
On 12/17/12 4:02 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
BTW, Lady Heather has support for several versions of the Mayan and Aztec
calendars. Also Druid, Herbrew, Islamic, Indian, and many others.
so we can have a GPS disciplined rollover of the long count?
You're missing something important! Due to possible errors in their long term
calculations we may have actually missed the end! Passed right by with nobody
noticing...
Peter
On 12/17/2012 2:31 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
You knew it would be coming..
A discussion over lunch brought up the
Yes, you can have a GPSDMC (GPS disciplined Mayan calendar). You can also
specify your preferred calendar correlation constant (a +/- offset to the start
of the calendar) to satisfy the whims of when your favorite deity demands
sacrifices.
Also, Lady Heather does sidereal time (LMST or
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[mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Don Latham
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 12:04
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] MesoAmerican calendars, Solstice, etc.
And it's on my birthday, too. So should I open my
But just like other time scales, how did those mesoAmericans reconcile
their 360 day cycle to 365.25... day intervals between solstices?
They had a five day ong party wherethey didn't work. They took those days
off. Not kidding, they resync'd every year. Kind of like leap days all
stuck on
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Chris Albertson
albertson.ch...@gmail.comwrote:
But just like other time scales, how did those mesoAmericans reconcile
their 360 day cycle to 365.25... day intervals between solstices?
They had a five day ong party wherethey didn't work. They took those
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