Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 7/30/05, Jim Cornette fc-cornette@insight.rr.com wrote:
There should be 13 month in a year and 28 days in a month. The middle of the night should be midnight and the middle of the day noon. The first day on the moon should be the first day of the month and the last day of the moon should be the last day of the month.
That doesn't work. 13 does not divide evenly into the 365.24 rotations the Earth performs as it revolves around the Sun once. Nor does 28 divide evenly into the 27 days and 8 hours that elapse for every cycle of the moon.
13 does breakdown to leaving one extra day a year that would need to be added to a month somewhere or left alone as month 14. The moon concept would be harder to deal with than current daylight savings time. Shifting time by 16 hrs each month end. Thanks for the statistics why our calander based on moon cycles is so inappropriate. Forget daylight savings time and all the other arguments, let the moon cycles govern months (every 27 days and 8 hrs) and come up with something more appropriate for syncing the earths rotation around the Sun.
Very off-topic but at least a learning experience.
Jim
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