#Calendars

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

Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ie
2025-02-23

The Borana group people into age-based and generation-based groups, which are completely independent.

Every eight years, leadership passes to the next generation group in an endless cycle. Historians identify time not by years, which are a little vague in Borana philosophy, but by which generation group was in authority at the time.

Legesse literally wrote and entire book about this, which I got from Anna just for the calendar stuff.

Thank you for reading.

12/12

#calendars #timekeeping

Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ie
2025-02-23

Today I want to talk about Borana timekeeping. This is hard to do without getting into anthropological controversies, and it's not every day I get to disprove a widely-repeated idea. (I am not the first to disprove it but I did it independently).

1/12

#Borana #Indigenous #Kenya #Ethiopia #calendars #timekeeping

Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ie
2025-02-16

The timekeeping system of the Muni (or Mursi) will challenge your preconceptions of timekeeping, and your ideas of what a calendar even is. Indeed, the Muni seem to keep good time without needing a formal calendar.

Like Pacific Islanders and the Haida, the Muni measure time by the phases of the moon, which ultimately determines when to sow and when to reap.

The year is seasonal, based on which plants are flowering, which are growing, and what animals are doing.

1/5

#Muni #Mursi #calendars

Jordan (has moved)lns@fosstodon.org
2025-02-11

After a day of (almost) fully integrating Radicale into my infra, including putting it behind haproxy, setting up users, calendars, installing clients on $devices and subscribes, I have to say I'm really pleased.

I've *never* done a third-party hosted shared calendaring solution. Privacy and all...But this is nice.

radicale.org/

#calendar #calendars #radicale #foss #linux #selfhosted #selfhosting #privacy

A screenshot for the Radicale website, including a radish logo or mascot.
2025-02-10

The idea of a more universal and modern calendar has been on my mind for a while.

So far, I’m thinking:
• 13 equal months, 28 days each
• 1 leap day at the end of every year and one additional every fourth year to stay in sync with the Sun
• Neutral, logical month names (no outdated history)
• One universal global time, no time zones

What do you think? Worth rethinking how we track time and time?

#Calendars #Timekeeping #Design #Science

Martyn's random musingsmartyn@musings.martyn.berlin
2025-02-06
Atlas Obscuraatlas@libranet.de
2025-02-05

The Sunwheel in Hadley, Massachusetts

Each solstice, students and astronomy enthusiasts gather at a primitive but functioning sun wheel to witness how humanity first used this calendar.#solstice #sun #calendars #sundials #section-Atlas
The Sunwheel

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