tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 27 10:21:52 1995
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Calendar Ideas
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- Subject: Calendar Ideas
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:17:48 -0500
ghItlh Garrett Michael Hayes:
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On 20 Nov 95 at 19:15, MR PAUL J COFFEY wrote:
> [...] I have seen non-canon documents that specify, for Klinzhai, a
> 344.14-day year divided into three seasons and 68.8 five-day weeks.
> The day specified is of 28 hours. [...]
Conversational Klingon clearly states that the day is a 24 hour day.
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toH! And the Klingons used a ternary numbering system before,
presumably, they decided to get used to the system higher tech used.
We can either
(1) say that they changed from 28 subdivisions to 24 for a similar
reason;
(2) say that their day-night cycle = approx. 28 Terran hours, but they
divide it handily into 24 subdivisions, as we do; or
(3) ignore the text that mentions a 28-hour day, as non-canonical and
therefore no more for us than an entertaining thought, at best.
I recommend (3).
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