Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] A suggestion for the Lojban names of weekdays and months.

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:24:20PM +0200, Remo Dentato wrote:
> BTW we are talking about the Gregorian Calendar, right?
> 
> I always thought that Lojbanistan was using International Fixed
> Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar)
> for cultural neutrality!
> 
>  :)
> 

I was hoping I wasn't going to be the first person to question why
weeks had to have 7 days, or why the Gregorian Calendar was assumed
to be universal.

There are many fascinating proposals regarding calendar reform:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform

The one that got the most traction was eventually blocked on
religious objections, namely that it didn't have repeating 7-day
cycles:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar

I've personally wanted to see a marriage of lunar and solar
calendars along a 19-year cycle:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle

Having said all of this, my own attempts to follow a non-gregorian
calendar, with or without Lojban, has been a struggle in
reconciling any new calendar system with the world's use of the
gregorian calendar.

-Alan
-- 
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi

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