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    The Metric Calendar, a Metric Diary
    The Metric Calendar, a Metric Diary
    The Metric Calendar, a Metric Diary
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    The Metric Calendar, a Metric Diary

    By Vincent van Mechelen

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    Brainwashed into thinking that the calendar you and 'everyone else' use is perfectly normal? A chaotic calendar in which months are made to vary in length from 28 to 31 days; an unnatural calendar which passes over the existence of solstices and equinoxes, thus in its ignorance having the year begin at a totally arbitrary moment; a split, polycyclic calendar whose dates do not tell you anything about the day of the week they fall on? You believe it is scientific that economists (with politicians following in their wake) treat a small increase or decrease, when comparing two months or quarters of that calendar, as 'significant' while the inaccuracy of that calendar itself may be as much as 8.0 %; that meteorologists claim that a new season starts on the first day of a month on a calendar which does not even recognize the natural quarters of the year? And on top of that you are also happy with exclusivist names such as August(us) for the eighth month and incorrect names such as September (Seventh Month) for the ninth month? Then, skip this book. Write in your old January-to-December diary that this was the day that you consciously decided to stay stuck to Gregory and the whole lot forever.

    Not fully brainwashed, perhaps never brainwashed at all, and interested in a calendar which far surpasses a haphazard and inaccurate, traditional 'system' of chronology? Then, read about the basics of devising a systematic calendar and the way in which the Quaternary Metric World Calendar meets the requirements for an adequate arrangement of the days of the solar year on Earth. (Sorry, the standard number of fingers on two human hands is not relevant to this arrangement.) Read about the Year-Week-Day and Year-Month-Day codes and the names for the (more than ten) months of the year and for the (fewer than ten) days of the week which are being proposed in connection with the Metric dates. And see what a diary which is good for any and every year looks like, or rather may look like. (This one is made complete with fifty pictures, varying from truly global to very personal.) A Metric diary needs no crackpot additives, but in a mixed social environment or in a stage of transition Gregorian dates will no doubt come in handy. (So this one still shows them too.) In the near future you may want to write down in your new North-to-South diary when you consciously decided to change over to a calendar which is transparently perpetual in itself and inclusive in all respects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVincent van Mechelen
    Release dateSep 28, 2014
    ISBN9789081773546
    The Metric Calendar, a Metric Diary
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    Vincent van Mechelen

    Machiel Vincent van Mechelen is a native of the Netherlands who also lived and worked in Canada as a landed immigrant. While still being taught Dutch, French, English and German, 'Machiel' –as Vincent was called then– received a science-oriented secondary education. The formative influence of the exact sciences continued at the academic level, but the arts, pure or applied, life and social sciences and ethics later played a significant role as well or started to receive a greater emphasis. Eventually, Vincent graduated from three different universities, in landscape architecture, in philosophy and in English language and literature (in this order, with diverse jobs in two continents, a one-year trip around the world and a period of studying informatics in between).In the course of about thirty years, Vincent van Mechelen wrote philosophical, (neutral-inclusive) ideological, literary and linguistic books and papers, short stories, a play and poems, among which songs, all labors of love, one of them a Vocabulary of Alliteration. Most of the author's work is in This Language (what many may consider 'American English'), a part in Deze Taal ('Dutch') and some of it in Zhezhong Yuyan ('Putonghua Chinese'). Since the advent of the Internet Vincent's main mediums of publication have been MVVM-site (mvvm.net), a private site, and TRINPsite (trinp.net), a site owned by a nonreligious denominational foundation. A few books have now been self-published in print and as ebooks.The first ebook which appeared at Smashwords was The Last Heavenly King, part of Triptych of Times, a trilogy consisting of The Last Heavenly King, Waiting Can Wait and Legends of the Future, all three novellas in themselves. As the beginning describes the final days of the 'Taiping Rebellion' (only 84 years before Machiel first saw the light), it should be of interest that the author visited China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) several times and still studies Chinese – at an intermediate level, that is.The Metric Calendar, a Metric Diary is Vincent van Mechelen's second ebook. It is published at the same time as Metric Diary, a printed diary using the Quaternary Metric World Calendar. The ebook contains the Metric Diary (in color) on screen, but unlike the Diary on paper (in greyscale), it explains first the basics of a systematic calendar such as the Metric Calendar. This explanation is a good illustration of a way of thinking which is not bound by the magic of baseless, if not supernaturalist and/or exclusivist, tradition; not bound by arbitrariness or irrelevance, however 'normal' a majority in a particular place at a particular time may deem a belief or practice to be. (Incidentally, and yet not too coincidentally, the Metric Calendar also plays a role in Triptych of Times.)On MVVM-site at http://mvvm.net you will find additional public data about Vincent van Mechelen and other works by the same author under the same civil name. For more about Triptych of Times with the Last Heavenly King see tot.mvvm.net. For more about the Metric Calendar and a Metric diary see metric.mvvm.net. These subdomains provide direct links to the most recent information.Address correspondence to info@mvvm.net. (If discontinued consult MVVM-site.)

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      The Metric Calendar, a Metric Diary - Vincent van Mechelen

      The Basics of a Systematic Calendar

      On Earth, the two most important natural givens to base any calendar on are the length of a day, the period of this planet's rotation on its axis, and the length of a tropical year, the period of one revolution of this planet around the Sun. Unfortunately these two fundamental data do not match very well, as there is not a whole number of days in one year, let alone a round number, such as 100 or 1000 in the denary system or any system of numbers having a base other than ten. The length of an Earth year is about 365¼ times the length of an Earth day, and it is with this 'awkward' ratio any construction will have to deal.

      We could simply number the days on Earth and leave it at that. This would not be reprehensible or something, but it certainly would amount to not using a calendar at all, for a calendar does much more than numbering the days. A calendar arranges the days by subsuming them under certain divisions, if not divisions of divisions, of the year and it provides names for the major divisions, so that they can be remembered more easily, and may even acquire some meaning.

      A certain category of people may have a predefined period like a seven- or ten-day 'week' in mind and wonder how to connect such a unit of time with the solar year. Or they may have the name of an emperor or other such political or religious character in mind and wonder to what twenty-eight- to thirty-one-day 'month' that name should be attached. These people are putting the cart before the horse. Since solar 'months' and 'weeks' are not natural givens, we will first have to justify their use from a system-internal point of view, after which the naming of the days or of collections of days will follow.

      But how should we arrange the days then?

      Those with minds flexible enough to be able to free themselves from fixed traditional, ideological or just arbitrary preconceptions (and names) may now rationally argue that there are merely two logical ways to subdivide the common year on Earth: into 5 periods of 73 days or 73 periods of 5 days. The reasoning is

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