Re: Lunar Phases in Calendar

[Christopher Dimech]

Trying to fit people's calendar together?  Impossible.  Stick with the moon
and with the sun my friend,  ;)

> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 10:05 AM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Lunar Phases in Calendar
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:34:49AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Not Complicated.  Just a ball rotating.
>
> That depends on whether you're talking about the
> moon itself (then "a ball rotating" is a pretty
> good approximation indeed, although, if you look
> closely, you're into N-body problems, but I don't
> have to tell that to /you/, I think ;-)
>
> Or whether you're approaching it from the viewpoint
> of human calendars, trying to make sense of several
> incommensurable (and not really constant) observational
> constants (solar day, solar year, lunar month) and
> to try to fit them into each other. There, the human
> creativity has been impressive indeed :-)
>
> So those kinds of "calendars" are, as Byung-Hee politely
> puts it, "complicated".
>
> Cheers
>  - t
>