Time by Eighths

Using the 8-fold model for weeks, months, and years.

This is a continuation of one of the ideas introduced in Calendar Building.

Slicing Time

A ring of small circles. Each circle is shaded by greyscale, with the black circles at bottom becoming lighter all the way up to the white circles at the top. The ring is divided vertically in two by a line. At the centre is a circle containing the number 364. The circle is divided vertically and horizontally into four quaters, dividing the circumference into equal arcs. the circle is divided into 8 equal wedges.

Here we have the days of the year divided into equal quarters of 91 days with the midquarter days marked. Each of these days sits 45 days from the beginning and 45 days from the end of the quarter. Each quarter is also 13 weeks, so these midquarter days also fall in the midquarter week, which sits 6 weeks from the beginning and 6 weeks from the end of the quarter. In addition, the midquarter day falls on the middle day of that middle week.

It’s all very synchronized.

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Raccoon’s New Year

Today marks yet another of theAbysmal Calendar’s interlocking New Years.

This past year I’ve been developing a novel calendar system, which divides the year into 363 + 2 days. The 363 days are divided into 11 months of 33 days each. Each month is made up of three weeks of 11 days. There are also three terms of 121 days.

The first day of the year is today, Jun 22 (21 in a leap year).

 

image of concentric circles. The outermost circle is made of eleven "months" of thirty three days arranged as three by eleven rectangles. Each rectangle contains thirty three circles representing the days of the year. Each circle is shaded from white at the top through greyscale to black at the bottom. The next circle in numbers the months 0 to 10 from top right clockwise to top left. The next circle in numbers the terms 0 to 2, beginning at the top right, ending top left. The central circle has the number 363.
Northern Hemisphere

 

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