Talk:Vilani Calendar
Notes (2007)[edit]
Does this article imply that the Vland rotational period evenly divides into the sidereal period?
- Dcorrin 20:14, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Just about. According to my calculations, the difference is about 5 minutes a year. (I could be really wrong about this of course).
- Tjoneslo 21:55, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Notes (2008)[edit]
How can a year have 500 drandir and 478 standard days at the same time? I remember the source book mentioning a length of year from about 360 drandir. Any idea which makes more sense?
- Kuranek 12:30, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- The dran-dir and a standard day are not the same length. A dran-dir (one vilani day) is 31 hours, 48 minutes, whereas a standard day is 24 hours. The standard imperial calendar (365 days long) is about 275 dran-dir long.
- Tjoneslo 12:57, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Conflict issue (2018)[edit]
There is conflict here on the length of the Drandir. The article says "A drandir consists of a Dran (day) and a Dir (night). Since the Vilani Gurkala (year) is 500 drandir long, there are a total of 1000 dran and dir in the year. The gurkala is 478.72 standard days in length, about 1.33 standard years." and then in the next line says "The year, at 360 drandir, does not exactly match the orbital period of Vland."
The source of this is in the source materials. The MT Referees Companion shows the 1000 drandir gurkala with a 23.35 hour day. The MT Vilani and Vargr book shows a 360 drandir gurkala with a leap drandir every ten gurkala.
The length of the Gurkala is consistent as it relates to Solomani/Imperial 24 hour days at 478.72 but the number of hours in a drandir is not.
Which do you think makes more sense, Matthew?
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 07:37, 5 March 2018 (EST)
The original GDW material with 23.35 hour days, rather than the Vilani and Vargr DGP material is what I would go with. But this means the extant Vland system layout they did in V&V is wrong because it has a 32 hour day, unless Vland slowed its rotation significantly in the past three thousand years which seems unlikely. Of course if it's just the rotational speed that varies I would probably just fudge that number and say the planet is spinning a bit faster than expected. So scrap the 360 X 32 hour Drandir year and go with the 500X23.5 hour Drandir year for the same approximate year length. Do you want me to make the edit?
- - Matthew Kerwin (talk) 18:30, 5 March 2018 (EST)
Should also point out that this has ramifications on other pages.
- - Matthew Kerwin (talk) 18:40, 5 March 2018 (EST)
Go for it. I don't see anyone else chiming in. We find this kind of stuff all the time. It's documented.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 07:17, 6 March 2018 (EST)