tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 17 14:59:44 1995
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Re: calendars
On Wed, 17 May 1995 11:40:43 jatlh David E G Sturm
> I guess we could create a non-canon 9-day week for our own amusement
> based on the Terran calendar...
> <...jIpe'ta'...>
> It would
> really tie in with Okrand's ancient 3-counting system.... Particularly
> if a 9-day weeklike unit exists. Obquestion: If Marc Okrand were to set
> down a length of the Klingon year/day type material, would it be canon to
> Paramount? Probably, since I doubt there would ever be a need for it in
> a script.... Maybe MO would sanction a 27 (3^3) Klingon hours = 1 jaj, 9
> jaj = 1 Klingon week, 3 Klingon weeks = 1 Klingon month, 3 Klingon months
> = 1 Klingon season, 3 Klingon seasons = 1 Klingon year scheme?
The only problem is that the length of time measurement rarely, if ever, has
anything
to do with the number system which a people use. Look at our system of time
measurement based on 12's (12 hours in a day, 12 hours in a night) and 60's
(seconds
in an hour, hours in a minute). The are holdovers from the old Babylonian
base-12
number system, which was probably derived from the 12 phases of the moon in a
year
(12 moonths in a year). Maybe we should change the length of the second so
there
are 10 hours in a day, or maybe 20 just to be consistent. Then we could go
to a 10-day work week. Would that dictate a 5-day weekend? Hey, let's
party!
Brad