tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 16 16:35:48 1995
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number of days in the week
- From: "jim bisso" <[email protected]>
- Subject: number of days in the week
- Date: Tue, 16 May 95 16:35:45 PDT
qo'ran said:
>There is absolutely no reason to think that the Klingon calendar
>even has a seven-day week, since the only reason we have one is
>that there are seven "planets" visible by the naked eye from
>Earth.
I thought the reason we have a seven day week is because the Babylonians
divided Earth's lunar month into (roughly) four weeks of seven days each. The
Romans had a nine day week (labeling the days from A to H). They were trying
for a tripartite lunar month. The seven planets were either an afterthought or
a happy coincidence.
rojche'wI'