Table of theAbysmal Weeks & Months

the weeks and months and other things of theAbysmal Annual Calendar

A reference for the even measures within theAbysmal Calendar Year

days per year	market week	weeks per year	weeks per month	days per month	months per year
365	5-day	73	–	–	–
364	4-day	91	7	28	13
364	4-day	91	13	52	7
364	7-day	52	4	28	13
364	13-day	28	4	52	7
363	3-day	121	11	33	11
363	11-day	11	3	33	11
361	19-day	19	–	19	19
360	5-day	72	3	15	24
360	5-day	72	4	20	18
360	6-day	60	3	18	20
360	6-day	60	4	24	15
360	6-day	60	5	30	12
360	8-day	45	3	24	15
360	8-day	45	5	40	9
360	9-day	40	4	36	10
360	9-day	40	5	45	8
360	10-day	36	3	30	12
360	10-day	36	4	40	9
360	12-day	30	3	36	10
360	12-day	30	5	60	6

Table of the days, weeks, and months of
theAbysmal Calendar Year

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

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.

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).

 

Northern Hemisphere

 

Naming the Days Meaningfully

Numbering the days helps us organize them better, but naming the days adds a depth of meaning.

quotation from NOBA Time and Culture

“Many cultures use social activities to define their calendars rather than the other way around. The calendars of the Nuer people from the Upper Nile in the Sudan, for example, are based on the seasonal changes in their environment. They know that the month of kur is occurring because they are building their fishing dams and cattle camps. When they break camp and return to their villages, they know it must now be the month of dwat.”

“Most societies have some type of week, but it is not always seven days long. The Muysca of Columbia had a three-day week. The Incas of Peru had a 10-day week. Often the length of the week reflects cycles of activities, rather than the other way around. For many, the market is the main activity requiring group coordination. The Khasi people hold their markets every eighth day. Consequently, they have made their week eight days long and named the days of the week after the places where the main markets occur (Levine, 2005)”

the 7 planets and 24 hours

Analogs of time from the hour to the year.

I’ve been experimenting with ways to divide the year, hoping to break our dependence on the Gregorian calendar as the de facto global time frame.

Although the current 7-day week came from the Jewish Calendar, there were astronomical variations floating around as well, which assigned “planets” to the 7 days of the week. This is still evident in some weekday names (depending on your language), such as Sunday, Monday, and Saturday.

7 pointed star in a circle
clockwise from bottom left:
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

The above image can be read around the circle either clockwise from the shortest orbit (Moon at 27 days, Saturn at 29 years) or along the paths of the star in order of the weekdays: Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars (Tuesday), Mercury (Wednesday), Jupiter (Thursday), and Venus (Friday)

Scaling the Atomic Year

Ldecola tries it with the Gregorian year. How does it hold up against theAbysmal?