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).
The Time and Space of the Here and Now.
We’ve laid out an imaginary grid over the Earth, which we measure in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Above marks one of the centres of North America, in the territory of Dakota, Lakota, Santee, and/or Yanktonai peoples.
In very rough terms, we use this coordinate system to pinpoint any given location on Earth (and along with elevation, in all three dimensions). Our place in this grid is also a guide as to how we experience time.
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Rethinking Time 