[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Brian Dunbar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Dave Fischer wrote:
> 
>>Ah, that egyptian calendar was so nice.
>>
>>12 30-day months.
>>weeks aligned on month boundaries
>>5-day festival at the end of the year to round it out.
>>
>>As opposed to the earliest version of the Roman calendar (a few
>>thousand years later) that we use - 10 months, 30 or 31 days each,
>>and a roughly 60-day period that didn't count, over the winter. And
>>when they filled in the winter with a few more months, it was still
>>so bad they had a "leap month" called Mercedonius that was occasionally
>>thrown in to the middle of February, often for political reasons
>>(to screw with the timing of elections?).
> 
> 
> 
> You know, the Romans bodged and/or screwed up so many things it's really
> pretty amazing they accomplished as much as they did.
> 
> 

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