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Re: please help updating calendar



On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:54:13AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > > If there are no fixed events then everything should go in the yearly
> > > files.
> > 
> > The events are fixed. The main point is that the Jewish calendar is based on 
> > the motion of the moon, so that a regular Jewish year is 354 days long (Yet 
> > there are years with an extra month and maybe other mechanisms to compensate 
> > for that). But as far as I know every Jewish event could be calculated in 
> > advance.
> 
> In this context, "fixed" = "have a set Gregorian date".  So there are
> no "fixed" events in the Jewish calendar.
> 
>    Julian

And events in the Wicca 'calendar' are based on the solstices and
equinoxes and would not be fixed either.




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