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jar
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Message 7 of 21 (163348)
11-26-2004 2:50 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by happy_atheist
11-26-2004 2:43 PM


The issue was always about how to bring the two major calendar driving events into sync, the sun and the moon. The most common Kludge was to make months 30 days long which came close to the lunar cycle and then throw in some arbitary number of non-counted days to synch up with the solar calendar. The would add the days as a bunch at the end or beginning of a year or place them a few at a time between months.
Of course, since neither the lunar or solar cycle work out to be a number that can evenly be divided, none of the calendars worked well over time. They all got out of kilter and so you needed a special class of people to keep track and fudge the final figures every year. They called them Priests.

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jar
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Message 17 of 21 (163983)
11-29-2004 6:04 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by andres
11-29-2004 11:57 AM


Re: 365 calendar
The Chinese had adopted a 365 1/4 day solar calendar and a 29 1/2 day lunar calendar by 1400BCE IIRC.
Two oracle bones
Shang Dynasty in China
(c. 1800 - 1200 BCE)
Evidence from the Shang oracle bone inscriptions shows that at least by the 14th century BC the Shang Chinese had established the solar year at 365 1/4 days and lunation at 29 1/2 days. In the calendar that the Shang used, the seasons of the year and the phases of the Moon were all supposedly accounted for.
A link to some info on caledars from early China.

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