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lin robinson · 23rd July 2007, 03:38 AM

A year is not intrinsically composed of months, which are either lunar or arbitrary. It IS composed of a number of days.
So you are using it's size orbit and some astro-tinkering to figure that out...basically a ratio between length of orbit and rotational speed. That's your given, you can whack it up as you please.

By the way I was quite taken by a Paul Goodman proposal in Habitus... that we establish a year based on 12 months of 30 days and celebrate the remaining days as a sort of "all bets are off" party period like Carnival. Whose length can be effortlessly adjusted for precision without buggering up our work calender. It's so sensible that any world other than ours would probably do it.

23rd July 2007, 03:38 AM	#8 (permalink)
lin robinson Science fiction fantasy Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: SOUTH AMERICA Posts: 485	Re: Fictional Calendar System A year is not intrinsically composed of months, which are either lunar or arbitrary. It IS composed of a number of days. So you are using it's size orbit and some astro-tinkering to figure that out...basically a ratio between length of orbit and rotational speed. That's your given, you can whack it up as you please. By the way I was quite taken by a Paul Goodman proposal in Habitus... that we establish a year based on 12 months of 30 days and celebrate the remaining days as a sort of "all bets are off" party period like Carnival. Whose length can be effortlessly adjusted for precision without buggering up our work calender. It's so sensible that any world other than ours would probably do it.