[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Phil Stracchino]

Dave Fischer wrote:
> Ah, that egyptian calendar was so nice.
> 
> 12 30-day months.
> weeks aligned on month boundaries
> 5-day festival at the end of the year to round it out.
> 
> As opposed to the earliest version of the Roman calendar (a few
> thousand years later) that we use - 10 months, 30 or 31 days each,
> and a roughly 60-day period that didn't count, over the winter. And
> when they filled in the winter with a few more months, it was still
> so bad they had a "leap month" called Mercedonius that was occasionally
> thrown in to the middle of February, often for political reasons
> (to screw with the timing of elections?).


You know, the Romans bodged and/or screwed up so many things it's really
pretty amazing they accomplished as much as they did.


-- 
 Same geek, same site, new location
 Phil Stracchino                     Landline: 603-429-0220
 phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net         Mobile: 603-216-7037
 Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker, Free Stater