[Dargon-writers-list] Hmm. Calendar Question!

[William Donahue]

Victor Cardoso wrote:
> 
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 7:49 AM, Ornoth D.A. Liscomb wrote:
> 
>> I do not recall hearing the dates of the solstii & equii. Are they
>> canon? If they were published, and they contradict the calendar
>> dates, then the author failed to do the necessary research and was
>> just plain wrong.
> 
> 
> The only thing that's canon is the Winter Solstice by way of the 
> statement that the new year starts two days after the winter solstice. I 
> then extrapolated the rest of the solsti and equi from that information 
> and came to the realization that Melrin is being incorrectly called a 
> "spring" festival.
> 
> "The new year begins 2 days after the winter solstice..." 
> from: http://www.dargonzine.org/newintro.shtml

That's the reference? If it's not in a story, I wouldn't call that 
canon. I can edit that intro to whatever it needs to be.

> I'm of the opinion that we just correct the glossary and faq pages to 
> call Melrin a festival that takes place between Naia and Yule. But 
> that's my 2 cents.

I'd be more than happy to do the updates if you'll send me the wording 
you'd recommend.

> 
> I'm also making a time map of bells to hours to get a feel of what time 
> Third Day Bell really is. (my current calculations put that at about 
> 7:30 am, in case you're interested)
> 

Um... huh? "The day is divided into 10 bells of day (first day bell at 
sunrise) and 10 bells of night (first night bell at sunset)."

Sunrise and sunset occur at different times every day (okay, they are 
the same twice a year), so I don't see how you can map a bell to a time 
without specifying a day. And for the it to be two bells after sunrise 
at 7:30am, that's got to be a mighty early sunrise. That's probably 
right for the summer solstice, but 7:30 isn't mcuh past sunrise (1st 
bell) in the winter solstice, using Maine and Standard Time.