[Dargon-writers-list] Dargon Calendar: Draft1

[Victor Cardoso]

On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Ornoth D.A. Liscomb wrote:
>
> 1). Where's Deber 2? Victor!

LOL. I'm glad someone else was looking for this. When I finished the  
first pass I was like: F*$k! Why do I only have 364 days in  
Dargon????! Shortly after posting, I went through and painstakingly  
looked at the cells and realized I was missing Deber 2. I decided to  
hold off and see if anyone else noticed. Good job, Orn. You pass!

> 2). The seasons on both Earth and Dargon (but not Dargon's hidden
> moon, of course) are ruled by astronomical laws that, due to the
> solstices and equinoxes, keep the them very close to the same
> duration. On Earth your seasons are 92/92/90/91 days long, which
> works nicely. But somehow your Dargon calendar has three seasons of
> 90 days, and one season of 95. That is astronomically really dubious
> and kinda messes up your measurement of seasons in the Dargon  
> calendar.

And you know what's screwing it up? Frakin' Melrin! I kept the solsti  
and equi days the same for the moment. I could easily shift back the  
later solsti/equi to make the seasons all the same length. Of course,  
who's to say our second hidden moon (which is actually a darn  
spaceship!!!! -- thank you Daf!! ) doesn't exert some gravitational  
force to throw the seasons out of whack? Huh? Nyah! :) I'll even out  
the solsti/equi once I hear more feedback.
>
> I think it makes much more sense to align the calendars by the
> solstices and equinoxes, both logically and in the way you present
> them. Thus, Janis 1 = December 20/21. The benefit of this is twofold.
> First, Daf gets to keep the New Year happening on a solstice and a
> season change, which has logical merit. Second, it shifts the entire
> Dargon calendar back (from yours) by ten days, bringing Melrin back
> to May 21-25, which is a tolerable distance from its original
> placement, that being the second or third week in May.

> No, wait. I'm wrong. That silly making Deber 1 = New Year always
> throws me off. Making Deber 1 = December 20 throws Melrin off by more
> than a month, as has already  been pointed out. Ignore me, I'm too
> ill (flu) to be thinking about this stuff.

Yeah, isn't this fun Mr. Calendar Creator??? If you'd drawn a friggin  
diagram when you first made this thing, Daf's omnisexual native  
americans wouldn't have ended up traipsing about in bikinis in the  
middle of spring! :) I jest, of course.

Your thought process mirrored mine when I first was putting this  
together. Deber 1 being the New Year throws off the mental gears. If  
you really want to shove Melrin back into its proper place in the  
season, we should move the Winter Solstice forward to something like  
Janis 20th.

> So that'd be my vote as curator of Melrin and all the BY months,
> unless other compelling evidence is presented.
>
> 4). Thanks for the footwork, and good job with the presentation.


Thankee!
-- 
Victor Cardoso
  Ann Arbor, MI
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