<div dir="ltr">There's another possibility.<br>We count days in two independent systems: days, months, years on the one side, days of the week on the other. So the first day of the year isn't always a Monday (or Sunday, for some). The Mayas had a similar calendar system with two (or even three) independent counting systems.<br>
<br>So it might be similar for Klingon:<br>A new day starts at dawn, but the time is still counted from the midnight on. That also coincides with my sense of time: even at 3 o'clock in the morning, I'd still say it's not the new day, yet, because for my inner clock the new day starts when I get up... or maybe when the sun goes up. Maybe that's what David meant.<br>
<br>Greetings,<br>- André <br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/7 Noah Bogart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nbtheduke@gmail.com">nbtheduke@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
What happened to Klingon time being counted from dawn-to-dawn? Is this just the Klingon time-keeping words being transposed 6 hours earlier than they normally run, or is it now a retcon, or do they actually have a totally different system of counting time and what we have here is a translation of human time?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Philip Newton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip.newton@gmail.com" target="_blank">philip.newton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 00:34, Adm qe'San <<a href="mailto:qeSan@btinternet.com" target="_blank">qeSan@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Five past five (5:05)a.m. - vaghvatlh vagh rep<br>
> 5:05 p.m. (17:05) - wa'maH Sochvatlh vagh rep<br>
<br>
</div>On the original CD, the Latin script text had a different wording:<br>
{vagh pagh vagh rep}. Presumably, this is an earlier (and not canon)<br>
version. The sound file and the pIqaD agree with the newer-style<br>
wording.<br>
<br>
Other spelling differences include:<br>
<br>
* consistent space before {vatlh}, e.g. *{wa' vatlh rep} "1:00"<br>
* consistent lack of {vatlh} if minutes are mentioned, e.g. *{wa'<br>
wa'maH vagh rep} "1:15". (With {pagh} inserted if the minutes are less<br>
than ten.)<br>
<div><br>
> I separated the vatlh from the wa'maH to show that it is a<br>
> specialized usage of vatlh (wa'maHvatlh can't be a normal Klingon number). I<br>
> left it attached to Hutvatlh and so on because they happen to be regular<br>
> Klingon numbers anyway.<br>
<br>
</div>Ah, that explains that! I had been wondering about {wa'maH vatlh} and<br>
{cha'maH vatlh}.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Philip<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<span><font color="#888888">--<br>
Philip Newton <<a href="mailto:philip.newton@gmail.com" target="_blank">philip.newton@gmail.com</a>><br>
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