tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 17 20:49:52 1995
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re: calendars
> ghItlh David E G Sturm <[email protected]>:
...
> > 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?
On Wed, 17 May 1995, Steve Weaver wrote:
...
> The day and year cycles are governed by planetary rotation (length of
> day) and orbit around the sun (the year). It would be one heck of a
> coincidence IF the tlhIngan day was 27 hours (still fits for
> "terrestial" life development though). A 3 week month (27 days) works,
> but again the number of hours and the number of days in a month are
> equal and THAT coincidence "bothers" me. A six week month (54 days)?
> Three month season (162 days), three season year (486 days -
> unfortunatly, not a perfekt cube [7.862]).
Hours are arbitrary. After all 100 "Jeremy Hours" is the same number of
cesium periods as 14.29 "Earth" Hours. The suggestion is not that the
Klingon day is 27 "Earth" hours long, but that the Klingon day is divided
into 27 arbitrary units. Weeks and months are also arbitrary. Seasons
are a little more confusing. On Earth, seasons are dictated by the
rotation of the planet around the sun. I can't conceive how a planet
could rotate so that there would be three seasons (then maybe Klingons
think about seasons very differently). And as for the INCREDIBLE
coincidence that all these 3s fit perfectly...
There has to be some reason that Klingons used base three systems. It
certainly isn't because they have 3 fingers. There are many possible
reasons, but maybe, just maybe, it was because they discovered that a
perfect base three calendar was only natural.
> Hmmm... a 9 week month of 9 days is an 81 day month, 3 months to a season
> (243 days), 3 seasons per year (729 day year) which IS a perfect CUBE
> "9"!!! Ooooooo! (three three's... truly THIS is a holy number! I don't even
> want to get into what the Greeks thought about the three season year...)
Then again, that works just as well. Better, in fact.
janSIy