Sujet : Re: (ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
De : wthyde1953 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (William Hyde)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 01. Jul 2025, 21:39:05
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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.....
The English celebrated the birthday of the original Queen Elizabeth for about 150 years after her death.
When a new Dutch ruler came to the throne a couple of decades ago the country continued to celebrate the predecessor's birthday, as that came in may and the new ruler's in midwinter.
William Hyde
(ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
Re: (ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
