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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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