[Noisebridge-discuss] Hacker's calendar

[Wladyslaw Zbikowski]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Leif Ryge <leif at synthesize.us> wrote:
> You appear to be using the glyphs of the 20 day names from the 260-day
> Tzolk'in' cycle to represent both numerals and the 19 month names of the
> Haab' cycle

Guilty; the Haab glyphs were kinda ugly so I didn't use them, except
for Wayeb who is que rad. I got some new images I'm gimping in now
though.

> Wayeb' (when those underworld portals dissolve) is not 20 days long but
> instead only "five unlucky days"

Right: see Wayeb 5 is the last date listed under Upcoming Events... I
figured I had a year before it came up, and if the world ended first I
wouldn't need to bother (I think there's an XP rule about that). Also
I correlated the 14th baktun to December solstice, but might as well
switch to Modified Thompson 2 so we can synchronize our partying.

> (because there is not an extra 5-day
> period like Wayeb', a tun is actually only 360 days long)

Thanks, I knew I skipped a trick somewhere! The "years" in the date
are really partial (360/365) so 5200 tun vs ~5125 Gregorian years.

> https://github.com/leif/mayacal/blob/master/mayacal.py

Basically like treasure. I'm down for a git cherry-pick at the next
session of "Deep Hack: Hacking the Fucking Fabric of Space and Time".