[PenultimateManStanding]

Keeping track of the time of year is not as easy as some would suppose. Even with the modern complex system we had to chop out 11 days in the 18th Century. Every fourth year a Leap Year except on certain centennials and so forth. Shouldn't be a problem for knowing when the solstices occur, but it can play havoc for record keeping and trying to keep the date straight. Besides, who says a week has seven days?

[dinopello]

It's kind of like making a good Brioche from scratch. It seems very simple but there are many particulars. But it is possible and people are around who can do it.

[Beignet2]

Follow the calendar of the old Hebrews or Mayan.

They had it down to the minute. Sunset and all.

Beignet

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'C')elestial observation for date calibration is possible and requires no high technology. Good lord. Sure, there are some that won't 'believe' it. There are people that don't believe the earth is not flat and that humans landed on the moon etc. So what? I don't believe the clock on my microwave.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I think that after TSHTF we come up with new names for the months. How about "uno" "dos" "tres" "quatro" "wooly" "bully" "watchit" "now" "let's don't" "take "no" "chance." If we got really bold we could shorten the months so we could add "come" "& learn" "to dance." After all, the months are named by the Romans. Why should we let those old nazis name the calendar?

[Lumpy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'A')ll of those people and their ways are dead.

[HEADER_RACK]

Now I don't give a crap about birthdays or holidays or any such sort, but if you don't figure out a way to keep track of the days and months mainly for the seasonal changes how do you plan on having a productive harvest?

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'Y')ou don't have to be able to read the stars. You just have to be able to cross off one day at a time on a calendar (and possibly remember how many days are in each month so you can make the next calendar. Actually people will cling to such activities as a way of maintaining their sanity and sense of normalcy.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '[')b]Keeping track of the time of year is not as easy as some would suppose. Even with the modern complex system we had to chop out 11 days in the 18th Century. Every fourth year a Leap Year except on certain centennials and so forth. Shouldn't be a problem for knowing when the solstices occur, but it can play havoc for record keeping and trying to keep the date straight. Besides, who says a week has seven days?

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'B')esides, who says a week has seven days?

[HEADER_RACK]

It's realy not that hard people. Make a calendar for any year Print out 50 years of calendars.
Use the technology of today to help you when it's not there in the future.

[mercurygirl]

OK, this is rather ridiculous.

Ancient peoples used calendars that were extremely accurate. Some indigenous peoples may not have used calenders as we understand them, but they still knew the cycles and had long oral histories which included information about how the seasons behaved. They knew what to do with plants and when to do it, by WATCHING them. Any gardener knows you don't plant or harvest because of a number on the calender, you do it when it's time. You go feel the soil, or look at your tomatoes or heads of wheat. If the grain is about ready, but you can tell from the weather that storms are on the way, you get busy.

The holidays (holy days) we maintain now are but remnants of religious practices that actually meant something to our ancestors. The ones that are important to individuals will be kept by them, or new ones will be made. Does anyone really care about their birthday? IMO, celebrating the ghosts of days past is kind of sad and meaningless.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'J')ust miss one day.

THEN convince someone else you are right.

Then miss one leap year...

Sure.

Uh - huh.

Your dreaming.

[Lumpy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CarlinsDarlin', 'H')ere ya go, Rocc. Just print one out (or 3 dozen). Laminate them. Pass them down like treasured heirlooms. Now you won't have to worry for at least 10,000 years. After that I can't help ya much.

10,000 year calendar

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '
')I think you're confusing Peak Oil with Gilligans Island.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '
')I think you're confusing Peak Oil with Gilligans Island.

[DomusAlbion]

So now Roccman has revealed another aspect of his rather complex make-up:


He's calendar challenged.