[time-nuts] MesoAmerican calendars, Solstice, etc.

DaveH info at blackmountainforge.com
Tue Dec 18 04:45:05 UTC 2012


I heard that there was some discrepancy about the exact date and it may
actually be happening a few days earlier.

Happy Birthday Don -- hope you get your cake and a very Merry Christmas to
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> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Don Latham
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 12:04
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] MesoAmerican calendars, Solstice, etc.
> 
> And it's on my birthday, too. So should I open my presents at 
> breakfast
> instead of dinnertime/ Will I get cake???
> :-)
> merry Christmas to all of you...
> DonL
> 
> Jim Lux
> > You knew it would be coming..
> >
> > A discussion over lunch brought up the question of 
> precisely WHEN this
> > Maya calendar rollover/civilization ending event would 
> occur.  It's not
> > enough to just say "dec 21st".. Does the event occur at the 
> beginning of
> > the day, end of the day, in which local time scale.. Local 
> news media
> > and the blogosphere are woefully ignorant of such basic 
> questions which
> > time-nuts learn to ask at their mother's knee.
> >
> > I did find a reference that it's tied to the Solstice, or 
> which we have
> > a fairly precise instant:  1112UTC  (although I've seen 
> other numbers
> > floating around).  So, basically, I could not have to worry 
> about going
> > into work on Friday, because all the excitement will be 
> over here in the
> > Pacific Time zone(but I will have to get up real early to 
> see it happen)
> >
> > But just like other time scales, how did those 
> mesoAmericans reconcile
> > their 360 day cycle to 365.25... day intervals between solstices?
> >
> > I've been rummaging through my ION CD of time and celestial 
> nav papers,
> > but didn't find anything at first on the whole issue 
> (plenty on other
> > astronomically derived scales).
> >
> > Anybody have any decent links to go hunting for?
> >
> > 5000 years is plenty long for significant precession of the 
> equninoxes,
> > for instance.. Maybe those Maya astronomers did a bang up 
> job measuring,
> > but hey, they probably didn't account for those higher 
> order effects.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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