2016-08-21 – Nikon D3300
tea harvesting, 101 Tea Plantation, Doi Mae Salong, Thailand
and I have yet again gotten distracted by yet another date format, the Mesoamerican Long Count – the proper calendar counts days since 11 August 3114 BCE using a base 20 (with one base 18) system
I liked the aesthetics of the “long count” but less so calculating the tally of days to get a date – as well as the lack of lining up with existing years (the Mesoamerican version uses a “year” of 360 days) – so, start with a Holocene block (used by Kurzgesagt), break century and year apart, and then 20 months of 20 days each (two décades) – normally only 18 months will ever be used with a 19th “month” of 5 (or 6) days – this does place the intercalary days at the end of a year rather than the French Republican method of inserting them between Summer and Autumn
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar ↗
the day after
the day before
the month before
the season before