I liked this link on that website St Clair ...
Will somebody please tell us what century this is?
http://www.2013.com/dream_machine/calendar/index.html
Its great ...
EXCERPTS
If you want to know what day it is, you won't even come close with the Gregorian Calendar. It's arbitrary and accumulates lost time rapidly!
You can't say it isn't colorful...
The Babylonians introduced the 60-minute hour.
The Egyptians added 24-hour days...
later shortened to 8 hours by capitalists (just kidding)
The Hebrews recorded 7-day weeks,
although the names are pagan...
Monday - Moon Day
Tuesday - Tiw's (or Zeus') Day
Wednesday - Woden's (or Odin's) Day
Thursday - Thor's Day
Friday - Frig's (or Freya's) Day
Saturday - Saturn Day
Sunday - Sun Day
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Ahah ...so we are now actually following the Pagan Calendar - not the Judaic or Christian?
CALENDARS THRU THE AGES
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/index.html
The Jewish calendar
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-jewish.html
The current definition of the Jewish calendar is generally said to have been set down by the Sanhedrin president Hillel II in approximately C.E. 359. The original details of his calendar are, however, uncertain.
The Jewish calendar is used for religious purposes by Jews all over the world, and it is the official calendar of Israel.
The Jewish calendar is a combined solar/lunar calendar, in that it strives to have its years coincide with the tropical year and its months coincide with the synodic months. This is a complicated goal, and the rules for the Jewish calendar are correspondingly fascinating.
The Christian calendar
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-christian.html
The "Christian calendar" is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although its connection with Christianity is highly debatable.
What is the Julian calendar?
The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar (bust at right) in 45 B.C.E. Author David Duncan says the Julian calendar was born of Caesar's tryst with Cleopatra.
Before the Julian calendar was introduced, priests in the Roman Empire exploited the calendar for political ends, inserting days and even months into the calendar to keep the politicians they favored in office. Tired of the chaos that this undependable system eventually gave rise to, Julius Caesar finally set out to put the long-abused calendar back on track.
It was in common use until the 1500s, when countries started changing to the Gregorian calendar (section the modern year). However, some countries (for example, Greece and Russia) used it into the 1900s, and the Orthodox church in Russia still uses it, as do some other Orthodox churches.
In the Julian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 1/4 days = 365.25 days. This gives an error of 1 day in approximately 128 years.
The approximation 365 1/4 is achieved by having 1 leap year every 4 years.
The Islamic calendar
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-islamic.html
The Islamic calendar (or Hijri calendar) is a purely lunar calendar. It contains 12 months that are based on the motion of the moon, and because 12 synodic months is only 12 x 29.53=354.36 days, the Islamic calendar is consistently shorter than a tropical year, and therefore it shifts with respect to the Christian calendar.
The calendar is based on the Qur'an (Sura IX, 36-37) and its proper observance is a sacred duty for Muslims.
The Islamic calendar is the official calendar in countries around the Gulf, especially Saudi Arabia. But other Muslim countries use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes and only turn to the Islamic calendar for religious purposes.
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Hmmmmm ...Have a look at this site!
It's written by a Non-Muslim ...
Islamic thirteen moon calendar for this year.
Calendar meshing together the 12-month Islamic calendar with the 13-moon calendar
Posted By: Foundation for the Law of Time
http://www.tortuga.com/foundation/campaign/taskforce/displayreport.cfm?ID=48
Excerpts:
There is a finality about the Muhammadan calendar; with its exact measurements as perfect an instrument in the recording of lunar time as it is reasonably possible to make... The Muhammadan calendar could then have universal application in conjunction with whatever solar time piece is eventually adopted."
Note: The Metonic cycle (nineteen solar-lunar year cycles multiplied by 128) is a grand cycle of 2432 years, which means that the Islamic lunar calendar is only off by one day every Metonic cycle of 2432 years.
B. Richmond, Time Measurement and Calendar Construction, 1956. p. 103-106:
Using the 13 Moon Calendar and Islamic Calendar together:
"Starting from scratch, our designer would soon discover that the Moon passes the same star in the sky every 27 days and 8 hours,* whilst the sun takes 365 days. Dividing one by the other, and choosing the nearest whole number, our designer would soon settle for 13 months of 28 days in a year.
This gives a calendar of 364 days, a number divisible by 2, 4,
7, 13, a 52 week year with four seasons each of 91 days a, a year with thirteen months."
(Robin Heath, "Designing a Calendar, Thirteen Months of 28 Days," from Sun, Moon & Earth, Walkmill, Wales, 1999,p. 32)
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So ...what century/year is this really?
- Aladdin
