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.

Comparing theAbysmal Year

a Gallery of Calendar images from 4-day weeks up to 91-day quarters.

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:

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)

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.

Scaling the Atomic Year

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