From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Lunar Phases in Calendar Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20201119090509.GA29352@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12022"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech , tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 15:36:55 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kfl3P-00031S-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:36:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46706 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfl3N-0000zD-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfl2w-0000z5-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:19244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfl2u-0001xr-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:26 -0500 Original-Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CcMgW30vBz1N2B; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 4CcMgW1fBMzcbc; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CcMgW1Hd1zcbV; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=166.84.1.89; envelope-from=jdashiel@panix.com; helo=mailbackend.panix.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/19 09:36:23 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = FreeBSD 9.x or newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125375 Archived-At: 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 > 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 > > > > -- United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual significant giving.