A calendar for our culture

[Kuciwalker]

To explain why DAVOUT's right:

Geostationary orbits work by having the satellite (artificial or not) orbit around the planet at the same speed as would the tip of a bar that extended the same distance away from the planet as the satellite - i.e. they stay over the same place. Now, as it is impossible to orbit around a latitude line, this has to occur at the equator.

[DAVOUT]

Duration of the week

We must think twice before reducing the week from 7 days to 6 or even 5. The primary purpose of the week is to determine that people will rest one day after 6 days of (hard) work. Any reduction of the week will result in less working days, and consequently the productivity of the civ will be reduced in due proportion. Unless the day is extended to 28 or 30 hours by a slower than Earth rotation of our planet, I would therefore not recommend any duration of less than 7 days, and I would clearly support a 8 days week.

[rendelnep]

Here is proposition for a public holiday to celebrate past victorious battles: One day a year say before the solictice or day of the dead, Everybody gatherts up in the town/city square, gathers up into two sides and attack the opposing team with either pillows or the fruit thayt corresponds the day of the week- however the holidayshouldn't occur on any days that involve hard fruits like apples or pineapples 'cause that would be dangerous and may clog whatever healthcare system with severe bruises

[badman]

do i get this right?
are we gonna make up our own calendar system, that has nothing to do with earth?
in that case i suggest we use the 10 system
10 days a week
10 weeks a month
10 month a year
well our year would have 1000 days, but that's no problem, we can make the day last 10 hours )
i think keeping it as simple as possible is the best idea

[DAVOUT]

A planet with a day of 10 hours would certainly not be very convenient for the life as we know it.
A calendar must be based on astronomical assumptions, mainly the rotation of the planet on itself and the rotation around the central star. From that, which determines the day and the year, we can derive months, weeks, hours, minutes, in a coherent system.
Are we free to imagine any kind of non coherent system ?
Yes if we intend to play a fantasy game.
No if want to play a game fun and imaginative but coherent with our knowledge of the universe.

[Spiffor]

Davout :
I think like you, we should have days which last relatively as much time as what we know (even if this is a different world, humans are playing, and a human biological schedule is approx 20-28 RL-hours long).

However, our "hours" could last a very different while than hours from the real world (roughly the equivalent of 100/150 RL-minutes, rather than 60)

But I think we shouldn't use the 10 system for everything. Ancient scientists loved to make things complicated. Some 10s would be nice for us, but too many 10s would be impossible given human nature

[UnOrthOdOx]

I'm getting a headache just reading this.

I see the temple is being put to good use, though.

[DAVOUT]

Newspapers don't bother with research, we know that.

[rendelnep]

how about this system:
we have 450 days per a year
that year is divided into 17 months (the required annoying number) This is then is divided into a month consisiting of roughly 3 weeks each week lasting 8 days. The weekend last for 3 days which is actually more than our present system.
I will continue into the finer detail but it probably wouldn't matter-
25 hour per day with each hour lasting 50 minutes eand each minut lasting 50 seconds. This ensures the the year is about the same length with earth.

[DAVOUT]

An odd number but also a prime number for the months is perfect : there will be neither quarter nor semester which means that the life of the financial analysts will be almost impossible in Apolitonia ; on top of that they will be able to write stupid or wrong commentaries only every 17 months ; imbearable for them !

But again, a three days week-end, leaving five days for the work would reduce the production by 15% (taking into account the number of minutes reduced from 60 to 50). Unless all other civs adopt our calendar (and I can't imagine the Aztecs doing so), it would jeopardize our plans to conquer the world.

[rendelnep]

not nessercarily, we could do what the french do with thier school children and half work days which would offset the difference if the weekend was infact 2.5 days. Besides the extra time might mean less stress for everybody involved and could create a relaxed yet focus work force. Besides it could mean that families have decent holiday during the weekend.
The seconds could probably be made longer to compensate for a loss of time anyway.

[Kramerman]

But again, a three days week-end, leaving five days for the work would reduce the production by 15% (taking into account the number of minutes reduced from 60 to 50). Unless all other civs adopt our calendar (and I can't imagine the Aztecs doing so), it would jeopardize our plans to conquer the world.

3 day weekends wouldn't necessarily reduce production. Bt being better rested and having penty of time for leisure activities, the workers will be happy. Happy workers, as most any managment official can tell you, are efficient workers. with 15% less time they can probably nearly finish the same amount of production, and they would ahve a better quality of life. This could spark immigration to are great nation, and a larger population means a higher potential for production....
Anyway, i like the 3 day weeend idea alot, and kinda wished we really had one IRL.

Kman

[jdjdjd]

how about monkeys/bananas....not other fruit (especially oranges, leave the oranges out of this, I mean really, oranges, why would we name a day after oranges of all things....see this Wed's Jungle Gazette for more information)

Gorilladay
Baboonday
Monkeday
Chimpanzeday
Orangutanday
GibbonDay
BananaDay, the day of rest
DaveyJonesDay (oh wait, skip this one)

Banana should be the only fruit, because its not just a fruit its a god.

Again, not oranges, such a stupid fruit to name a day after, in fact we don't even know what an orange is in Apolytonia.

[rendelnep]

jdjdjd would the holy day be in the middle of the three day weekend?