----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Mercier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
