Sujet : Re: (ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
De : tnusenet17 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Tony Nance)
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On 6/24/25 12:06 AM, WolfFan wrote:
On Jun 23, 2025, Tony Nance wrote
(in article <103cdjg$1e7o7$1@dont-email.me>):
On 6/23/25 4:02 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:32:42 -0400, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
In the Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar uses calendars based on the Emperors
birthdays (for things like taxes, for example). I think they also use
the Emperor's reigns for keeping track of years.
Is this something like the modern British celebrating "The Queen's
Birthday" (24th May) where I didn't find out till my last year of high
school that the Queen in question was Victoria not Elizabeth.....
>
It seems to be not quite the same. In the Vorkosigan Saga, the date
moves to the actual birthday of the current Emperor. On that day, for
example, the Counts give the Emperor a substantial amount of money -- as
a birthday gift, of course, since obviously the Counts could never do
something as unseemly as pay taxes to the Emperor/Empire.
wasn’t there a throwaway line or two about the time that there were (IIRC)
three Emperors in one year and a few of the Counts were short of cash?
That sounds very familiar, but I don't remember specifically which work it came from.
Tony
(ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
Re: (ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
