Jetée

Sorry to not quote more of you, and also asking you to forgive my Lenten tide of absence, (I lasted two weeks! Take that, Xerxys!) but in my then fuller days of pondering how to go along with this updated calendar of mine, I realized that the number of hours measured in terms of a full calendar year I was working with from the start was only an estimate (about ~2 difference from a true tropical solar year of return).

Having discovered that little nick in my plans, I bring you updated progress on this calendarous endeavor:

the 27-day compression into a month stays the same, and we will continue to abide 12 months into a year.

the small change that came from these calculations is that every year-and-a-half or so, we get a build-up of 9 hours and change to be allocated into the next year, and to continually try to assign all of these hours into a new leap year was taking too much painstaking effort.

The solution: instead of a 324-day year, we just bump it up to a 325-day year, with the leap year coming every 3rd year, and consisting of a true 12-month, 27 day cycle (so, basically, the leap year, we just get rid of the 28th day that we had the previous two years). Awesome. That bit of calculation is finit [and if anybody would like to see it in-detail, just ask; I didn't write much of it down, but I checked it at least 12 times every day, if not hour, to make sure I didn't screw up along the way.]


Now, regarding OCM's query about the risings of the sun and moon and jazz and breakfast: well, that threw a wrench into this offhanded quest of mine to create a better and more defined calendar, without numerous tricks, loopholes and incessant leap years (even though you can't get rid of them entirely). So, I also took MOAB's tip or suggestion of what it would be like to have metric time, and voila, I can actually a 27-hour day work now.


The way it goes is as so: the minute will no longer be 60 seconds long, but a full 100 seconds. To compensate and organize it as such, our ntions of what an hour used to be will have to be quelched. The new hour will consist of an even 32 minutes for each hour, and I have yet to come up with a snazzy title for it, but for those that would like it, every 3 hours will known as something like a "true trial hour" (I have a real hard time coming up with poem and book titles, so no surprise it is lacking).


So, all addressed, the new day (which is still pending, maybe the 14th of March?) for which this calendar will spawn will be host to a new 27-hour day, which consists of a time period of 13 hours marking daytime, another 13 hours to be known as our new nighttime, and finally, a longstanding uninclusion now to be recognized as the hour of twilight.

Questions, comments, new day / month naming suggestions? (July and August may be up for consideration / omission)

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi