Why don't we see annular calendars?
A Few Questions
How many days are there in a solar year? 365 .. or is it? (2024 has 266)
There are 52 weeks a year. Each week has 7 days, that equals 364 (then where is that 365th week day?)
To draw a circular (annular) calendar, just draw a circle using a program, then divide it in 365 parts, ..correct!? (not so correct)
Dividing A Circle
A circle has 360 degrees, but how can you divide it into 365 parts? Start by drawing a circle and a line from the center to the circumference. Then, draw another line and rotate it by an angle of 1/365th of the circle. However, this degree of precision isn’t simple. You need to rotate the line at an angle of 0.9863°, a fraction with four decimal points, to divide the circle into 365 equal parts. Unfortunately, my graphic design software only allows rotation to two decimal places (0.98°), which isn’t precise enough and leads to a noticeable error of three days.
As a result, it’s challenging to divide a circle into 365 parts using basic graphic design software.
- 360° \ 366 days = 0.9836°
- 360° \ 365 days = 0.9863°
- 360° \ 364 days = 0.9890°
An Adjustment Solution
365 can be divided by 5 and 73. To divide the calendar into 5 segments, make every 73rd day an adjustment day. For the remaining days, divide them into 72-day intervals using a ‘low resolution’ increment of 0.98°. Now, I’ve created a circle with 360 precisely equal divisions (arc days) and 5 slightly smaller adjustment days. (Intercalary Noon Meridian)
What about Leap Year!
Are there really 366 days in those years? How could that work on a continuous circular calendar?
It takes the Earth 365.256 calendar days to complete a solar orbital cycle.
Which means the calendar is 0.25 day per year slower than the actual location along Earth’s orbit. After 4 years the calendar is a full day behind, hence Leap Year was invented by the first Romans.
Leap Day is an “intercalary” day inserted to make up for the now 1 day shortfall between calendar and solar cycle start point.
In reality Feb 29 is not an “extra day” or 366th day, it is fake March 1st, which repeats itself, superimposing the same calendar day space, but now synchronized with Earth’s true solar position and the calendar. Only to start slowly drifting again.
Ascendalation Day (March 1st)
“Ascendalation” is a word describing a process invented by JM. It is the calendar process of shifting to the next outer annular ring (or ascending laterally) to synchronize between annular cycles. This aligns or superimposes Feb 29 and March 1 side by side on adjacent circles, then up to the next outer calendar ring, and the same “day” position is repeated. This creates a continuous “spiral” path of calendar time, instead of a true ring. The ascendalation process can only occur on this day, making it to some extent the anchor or the first day of my annular calendar.
Radial Dates
An important effect of the Ascendalation process is that it also aligns the date from annular year to year along the fixed radius. Therefore your Birthday will always be the same line (angle) from the center in the following annular cycles.
Intercalary Noon Meridian
By reimagining the 5 geometric adjustment days as intercalary calendar days, and adding extra time at noon on those 5 meridian days, time would synchronize the calendar with the solar cycle on a regular basis. Instead of calibrating with Leap Day, every 1,460 days. (4 years)
How much time to adjust?
- There are 1,440 minutes in a day
- 0.25 of a day equals 360 minutes
- Therefore the calendar falls behind 360 minutes per year (roughly)
- 360 / 5 intercalary days = 72 minutes to make up, rename or repeat
- 72 minutes are added between AM and PM, freezing 12:00PM, for a period of 1 hour and 12 minutes.
- Aka Double Lunch! When: Noon, Sept 1, the future.
Annular Calendar
What is the correct orientation and direction of an Annular Calendar? Rotating counterclockwise with Summer on top! (According to JM)
By setting Summer Solstice, June 20, 2024 as the 1st Meridian (73rd Day). The sequence of meridian days are as follows:
- #1 June 20
- #2 September 1
- #3 November 13
- #4 January 25
- #5 April 8
Annuchronal Time
Why Not counting every 73rd day is way better.
- 5 seasons of 72 days
- 72 days of 6 day weeks = 12 equal weeks per season
- 12 weeks a season = 3 months of 4 weeks
TO BE CONTINUED
