04/03/2011 [DMFA# 1199] - Attack of the Mega Wibbles!

[Talis Mahn]

Sorry Amber.... but next year, February is planning to emerge triumphant, bringing forth a twenty-NINTH[/b] day to bear against the efforts of your anti-February campaign.

Sorry February, but buying enhancement pills shall not save you!  Muahahahahaha!

[Anker Steadfast]

The Dragon/Cubi war has nothing on the Amber/February war !!   

Next thing you know, February looses all it's Mondays !

[Turnsky]

you know that after 2012, all months will be Februaries.

hey, just a thought, should furrae have its own calendar?


that way ambargh can have her own little world without February... or any other month that offends her.

[Attic Rat]

you know that after 2012, all months will be Februaries.

hey, just a thought, should furrae have its own calendar?


that way ambargh can have her own little world without February... or any other month that offends her.

Furrae could go metric and have years 100 days long with ten 10-day months! Of course, then it would take about three and a half years to get from one summer to the next. Dratted physical universe!

But then, I'm still mad about Daylight Saving Time, when noon is at 1:00 PM. How do you really know for sure just when to meet someone for lunch?

[VAE]

you know that after 2012, all months will be Februaries.

hey, just a thought, should furrae have its own calendar?


that way ambargh can have her own little world without February... or any other month that offends her.

Furrae could go metric and have years 100 days long with ten 10-day months! Of course, then it would take about three and a half years to get from one summer to the next. Dratted physical universe!

But then, I'm still mad about Daylight Saving Time, when noon is at 1:00 PM. How do you really know for sure just when to meet someone for lunch?

Why so? Define metric days (changing the def. of hour), metric months, and then stuff as much of them into a year as needed.
Every month being the same length would be that much better even if there isn't a  (x % 10 == 0) amount of them

[Maark30]

Of course if Furrea's orbit is different than our worlds then the whole point of metric days is moot because the entire calendar is already different from ours.

[VAE]

Of course if Furrea's orbit is different than our worlds then the whole point of metric days is moot because the entire calendar is already different from ours.

Why? they could have a metric callendary tuned to Furrea....
They might even use different base units, as their magnitude tends to be arbitrary

[Turnsky]

or it could be as simple as having different names. or a different month order, or something like that.

[Tapewolf]

DMFA seems to have Thursdays.  'Course, it might have been translated into Earth terms for familiarity and the real name is something else.

[VAE]

DMFA seems to have Thursdays.  'Course, it might have been translated into Earth terms for familiarity and the real name is something else.

Even with that, it'd suggest a compatible week with at least four days XD

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Even with that, it'd suggest a compatible week with at least four days XD

... And now I have this mental thought of a week with somewhere between four and eleven days, depending on which week it is...

[Turnsky]

ariannia's weeks are around nine days. 

[Tapewolf]

The Dragon/Cubi war has nothing on the Amber/February war !!   

This alarms me, since it can only mean that Amber will be sending out death squads to take down everyone born under Aquarius or Pisces.  Just to be sure.

[VAE]

The Dragon/Cubi war has nothing on the Amber/February war !!   

This alarms me, since it can only mean that Amber will be sending out death squads to take down everyone born under Aquarius or Pisces.  Just to be sure.

Hmm, under the horoscope updated to reflect current position of the heavenly bodies *i'm* Pisces....
Better get prepared.

[Anker Steadfast]

The Dragon/Cubi war has nothing on the Amber/February war !!   

This alarms me, since it can only mean that Amber will be sending out death squads to take down everyone born under Aquarius or Pisces.  Just to be sure.

Hmm, under the horoscope updated to reflect current position of the heavenly bodies *i'm* Pisces....
Better get prepared.

*whew*

Thank god I'm born under the Virgo sign then.
I totally dodged that one. 

[AmigaDragon]

Hmm, under the horoscope updated to reflect current position of the heavenly bodies *i'm* Pisces....
Better get prepared.

And when did they suddenly move? 

[Maark30]

Hmm, under the horoscope updated to reflect current position of the heavenly bodies *i'm* Pisces....
Better get prepared.

And when did they suddenly move? 

Ah the joy of orbital mechanics and such.  Since the stars move in space as does the solar system, the position of the stars changes all the time but in very small increments so the living do not notice it.  But wait over the span of millennium and the changes are noticeable. So one day Virgo will where Orion's belt.

[AmigaDragon]

Crossdressing constellations!

[Attic Rat]

you know that after 2012, all months will be Februaries.

hey, just a thought, should furrae have its own calendar?


that way ambargh can have her own little world without February... or any other month that offends her.

Furrae could go metric and have years 100 days long with ten 10-day months! Of course, then it would take about three and a half years to get from one summer to the next. Dratted physical universe!

But then, I'm still mad about Daylight Saving Time, when noon is at 1:00 PM. How do you really know for sure just when to meet someone for lunch?

Why so? Define metric days (changing the def. of hour), metric months, and then stuff as much of them into a year as needed.
Every month being the same length would be that much better even if there isn't a  (x % 10 == 0) amount of them

Shall we remove the concept of a day being a period of light and darkness, or a year being one orbit around the sun? There are approximately 365.25 days in a year. It isn't easy to divide 365.25 into any sort of equal parts, especially 10. If we had ten months, each would be 36.525 days long. If we had 100 months, each would be 3.6525 days long. If we got rid of months entirely, we'd still have a quarter of a day at the end of each year. Nobody listened to my suggestion for a 6-hour party (off the clock!) every year, so we're stuck with leap-years.

Why do you think all of humanity's calendar systems are complicated messes? We live in the SOL system.