#Calendars

2025-06-20

June solstice was at 02:40 UT (22:40 EDT); it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere & winter in the Southern. Hope everyone has a great season; also hope most of us in the U.S. (or really anywhere) don't melt over the next week, or maybe even all summer. #solstice #astronomy #calendars #timekeeping

David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2025-06-08

Ahhh good old #ProgrammingFalsehoods! Some bastard just made me remember the Roman calendar, and the falsehood "the day of the month always advances contiguously from N to either N+1 or 1, with no discontinuities."

#Calendars #AncientRome #BewareTheIdesInGeneral

Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wingkris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
2025-06-05

@frang Person C: all days have more than one number, because there's so many different #calendars =D

#time
~Chara

2025-05-29

Search Engine Land: Is it Tuesday? Google AI Overviews doesn’t know. “Google thinks today is Wednesday and yesterday was Tuesday. But it got the dates correct (today is May 29 and yesterday was May 28). So, yay Google also spit out this equally helpful answer, telling me the date is May 29 (correct) but again said that it’s Wednesday, even including a citation to a site.” This is so […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/search-engine-land-is-it-tuesday-google-ai-overviews-doesnt-know/

Michael Gisiger :mastodon:gisiger@nerdculture.de
2025-05-26

In #Mesoamerica, #time and #calendars were sacred, connecting the divine, nature, and humanity, guiding both daily life as well as rituals, and legitimizing power.

thecollector.com/aztec-maya-pe

Russell HowardRussellHoward
2025-05-06

Multumesc Bucharest! That was unbelievable! Can’t believe that was a Monday night. You were such an amazing crowd. Don’t ever stop judging cats.

Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ie
2025-05-05

The Babylonians seem to have used tithis even before the Indians. We don't know what, if any, name they used (hence modern scholarship just uses the Sanskrit term), but it seems quite likely the Indians learned the idea from the Babylonians.

There are some vague hints that the Greeks also learned about tithis from the Babylonians, but the evidence there is unfortunately scanty.

#calendars #timekeeping #Babylon #history

Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ie
2025-04-27

Marduk made made the moon appear and entrusted to him the night. He designated him as the night’s adornment, to define the days. Every month without ceasing he exalted (him) with a crown. “To light up over the land at the beginning of the month, you shine with horns to define six days and on the seventh day a half crown!

—Enúma Eliš explains why there are seven days in a week.

#calendars #timekeeping

Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​MsDropbear42@infosec.space
2025-04-22

I absolutely refuse to believe today's Tuesday.

I know this coz one of David Marr's guests tonight on #LNL, as per Phillip Adams before him, is LaTingle to summarise the latest political idiocies. Laura is on Monday nights, ergo today is Monday.

No further correspondence shall be entered into.

#calendars #LateNightLive #LaTingle #AusPol

2025-04-18

If you'd like to migrate your #AddressBooks and #calendars from somebody else's platform to a self-hosted or self-managed one, but there's no "migration assistant":

Check whether both platforms support the #CalDAV and #CardDAV standards. If they do, look into #vdirsyncer vdirsyncer.pimutils.org

We'd recommend to test-migrate your existing data to a local filesystem storage first, and swap in your new storage only when syncing to the test storage worked without errors.

To protect yourself against migration blunders, mark your source storage (platform) as read_only and let it "win" in your conflict_resolution setting.

For address book pairs, you can also sync the "displayname" and "description" metadata – for calendar pairs, additionally "color" and "order".

2025-04-15

Tolkien's manuscript.

This is from another area of Tolkien's mind: calendars.
He was pretty obsessed with making calendars for his Middle-earth. He wrote a big appendix to "The Lord of the Rings" about it, and wrote a great deal about the calendars before settling on the text as printed in Appendix D of "The Lord of the Rings".

I also feel like making a Font of Tolkien's own pen writing. What do you think?

#tolkien #calendars #calligraphy

tuxwise 🇺🇦tuxwise@mastodon.de
2025-04-15

If you'd like to migrate your #AddressBooks and #calendars from somebody else's platform to a self-hosted or self-managed one, but there's no "migration assistant":

Check whether both platforms support the #CalDAV and #CardDAV standards. If they do, look into #vdirsyncer vdirsyncer.pimutils.org

We'd recommend to test-migrate your existing data to a local filesystem storage first, and swap in your new storage only when syncing to the test storage worked without errors.

To protect yourself against migration blunders, mark your source storage (platform) as read_only and let it "win" in your conflict_resolution setting.

For address book pairs, you can also sync the "displayname" and "description" metadata – for calendar pairs, additionally "color" and "order".

2025-04-11

How is everyone managing multiple #calendars? I have the family one (Google), work (ms365) and multiple customer ones (typically ms365).

Would be great for a single view across all.

2025-04-09

I know for a fact that self-hosting is very difficult to pull off but I tip my cap to those who can manage it successfully.

Here's @emilygorcenski who shows us how to create a self-hosted calendar solution.

emilygorcenski.com/post/owning

#selfhosting #selfhost #calendar #calendars #software #hardware

2025-03-17

Good news for DPCalendar users! SchuWeb Sitemap 5.2.1 resolves a bug affecting event displays, ensuring seamless integration with your #Joomla site. Enjoy a better experience today! #JoomlaExtensions #Calendars extensions.schultschik.com/sch

2025-03-15

University of Edinburgh: Most AI struggles to read clocks and calendars. “While AI models can perform complex tasks such as writing essays and generating art, they have yet to master some skills that humans carry out with ease, researchers say. An Edinburgh team has shown that state-of-the-art AI models are unable to reliably interpret clock-hand positions or correctly answer questions about […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/15/university-of-edinburgh-most-ai-struggles-to-read-clocks-and-calendars/

Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ie
2025-03-06

Homer (not Simpson), Hesiod, and Euripides describe the beginning of Winter as being when the Pleiades, the Hyades, and Orion set just before sunrise, at the same time as Greeks hear crane calls.

When they were writing, this would have happened around the halfway point between the southward equinox and the southern solstice, same as how the Celts and Chinese reckon the seasons.

#calendars #timekeeping #history

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