Precessing a day every thousand years or so would be fine.
It doesn't have to be 11 years, though I wouldn't want it to be _too_ many years fewer or more than that. Same goes for the number of days in a month. (However, I'm pretty attached to 354 days in a year, though obviously I haven't decided on an exact fraction to work with.)
And no, the year definitely doesn't always start at the beginning of a month. It's as you said, more like the relationship of our weeks to our months.
Do the users of the calendar measure the year in any fixed way?
You mean fixed as in fixed to the actual solar year? No, not the way I've got it worked out now. The solstices and equinoxes would fall on different days in different years, as they do for us, but they'd notice if it changed significantly over time.
I could do a less formalized calendar, but I've done that before. The whole point of this is to do something more complicated. :)
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Re: More thoughts
Date: 2004-10-18 06:30 pm (UTC)It doesn't have to be 11 years, though I wouldn't want it to be _too_ many years fewer or more than that. Same goes for the number of days in a month. (However, I'm pretty attached to 354 days in a year, though obviously I haven't decided on an exact fraction to work with.)
And no, the year definitely doesn't always start at the beginning of a month. It's as you said, more like the relationship of our weeks to our months.
Do the users of the calendar measure the year in any fixed way?
You mean fixed as in fixed to the actual solar year? No, not the way I've got it worked out now. The solstices and equinoxes would fall on different days in different years, as they do for us, but they'd notice if it changed significantly over time.
I could do a less formalized calendar, but I've done that before. The whole point of this is to do something more complicated. :)