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
3655-day73
3644-day9172813
3644-day9113527
3647-day5242813
36413-day284527
3633-day121113311
36311-day1133311
36119-day191919
3605-day7231524
3605-day7242018
3606-day6031820
3606-day6042415
3606-day6053012
3608-day4532415
3608-day455409
3609-day4043610
3609-day405458
36010-day3633012
36010-day364409
36012-day3033610
36012-day305606
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

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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Day = Night

The Equinox is a total misnomer

Contrary to popular opinion (including my own for much longer than I care to admit), the Equinox is not the day when the day and night are equal. It’s the day when the Sun’s zenith occurs over the Equator.

When you experience day and night as equal depends on where in the world you live. Here’s a convenient table:

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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)

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Think Temporally, Act Locally

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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