JonnyMcA Wrote:
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> If the
> mayans were anything like modern astronomers, then
> a new day does not begin and end on consecutive
> midnights, but rather at midday, i.e. the time
> period between two successive returns of the sun
> to the local meridian. The day starting at
> midnight is a civil calender invention.
I have to say I don't really know the answer to that one ... although it does say
here (scroll down) that the Mayan calendar uses midnight as a cut-off point.
> Therefore, if the Mayans used a solar clock, and
> not our modern civil clock, then you can be up and
> about, have a morning coffee, and have the house
> cleaned and dusted
Er ... as my family will tell you, me doing that amount of housework in a morning would be a cosmic event in itself!
> in time to welcome the upcoming
> apocalypse. And if you do miss it, Im sure you
> can watch it all again on youtube!
Or ... not, depending on the precise degree of apocalypse ...
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