Re: Lunar Phases in Calendar

[Jude DaShiell]

Then of course, you've got lunar mansions used in India for timing.  But
emacs can't even get the 8 phases right so all of this may be better
done using external software and pasting its results into an emacs
buffer.  For those with any interest, a phase  has a 45 degree angle not
a 90 degree angle.

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Christopher Dimech wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:05:18
> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> To: tomas@tuxteam.de
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Lunar Phases in Calendar
>
> 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
> >
>
>

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