Talk:Intercalation (timekeeping)

message: Does anyone mind if I redirect the search term 'intercalation' to 'intercalation (disambiguation)'?  There seem to be a lot of search results so it seems sensible to do this instead.  Thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teamintercalate (talk • contribs) 13:57, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  redirect? 

message: The article says that a calendar year must have a whole number of days. Is this technically true? Perhaps based on the definition of the word calendar? Because, certainly, as a practical matter, a calendar could be devised which has a fractional number of days per year, just like the actual solar year does. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.166.35.6814:27, 22 April 2006 (talk • contribs)  
:Such a calendar would not provide a unique date for each day. Karl 24 April 2006 UT
::it would provide a date, based on the number of years that have passed? but that is irrelevant as a day could be devised that shares the remainder of the year amongst every day that makes up that year. so what? there are many seemingly human absolutes such as pi, time ect that cannot be reconciled with each other, and it seems that even the base ten numbering system that modern mathematics is mostly based around, is illogical and computationally inefficient compared with say base 12. but that is also inconsequential to most, perhaps you should ask yourself first before asking such a question, especially in the form of a statement, is the answer important to me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.218.63 (talk • contribs) 11:22, 23 August 2008
Does Intercalation include leap seconds? Is this what you're talking about? M.Nelson (talk) 03:46, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Intercalation does not include leap seconds because a calendar assigns a date to a whole day, regardless of the length of that day. — Joe Kress (talk) 22:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Whole days

message: Why does "Epagomenal" redirect here? Epagomenal days are days in some calendars (eg: French Republican Calendar) that fall outside the normal weekday cycle. Such days are not intercalary as they are a normal part of the calendar. --<SPAN STYLE="font-family:monospace; color:#008800; background-color:#ffffcc; border:1px solid #ff4444;"> B.D.Mills </SPAN> (T, C) 06:26, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The Egyptian calendar had five epagomenal days every year, so making a constant 365-day year without intercalation, yet February 29 is an intercalary day and is not epagomenal because it belongs to a month. May be someone could replace the redirect with an article, which could mention the Egyptian calendar, Bahai calendar and French republican calendar. Karl 10:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Epagomenal

message: This article could be improved by distinguishing leap days and epagomenal days, which serve to reconcile the calendar with the solar year, from intercalary months, which serve to reconcile the solar year with the lunar months.  --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 16:09, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mixes two things 

message: Days of the week are an additional complication! We are used to the week days progressing in strict regular progression, regardless of what happens to the rest of the calendar system. But is this always true? Have their ever been any systems that skipped or added week days for any reason? For example, adding special holidays, leap days, etc that were "outside" of the regular week day system?-71.174.179.58 (talk) 20:02, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  week days