diff --git a/src/text.js b/src/text.js index 5223e84..2c92c7c 100644 --- a/src/text.js +++ b/src/text.js @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ export const TITLE = 'The Calendar of the Witchmothers' export const GEOLOCATION_ASK = ` -This is a lunar-solar calendar that uses your location to calculate a time and date. +This is a lunisolar calendar that uses your location to calculate a time and date. This app runs entirely in your browser, so your location is never sent anywhere. May I ask you to grant permission for your computer to determine your location? `.trim().split(/\n/g) @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Each month contains four phases of the moon: New, Waxing, Full, Waning. Feasts are celebrated on the first day of the full moon of each month. Conclusions are celebrated on the last day of each cycle, either the Return or the Demise. Days span from sunrise to sunrise. This means that, at some extreme latitudes, witchy days are much longer than 24-hour days. -Events that happen during a day, are considered to happen on that day. There are 20 hours in a day: 10 of sunlight, 10 of nighttime. This means hours are elastic to the time of year. 0:00:00 is sunrise. 5:00:00 is noon. 10:00:00 is sunset. 15:00:00 is midnight. In an hour, there are 100 minutes, and 100 seconds. @@ -24,9 +23,10 @@ This implementation of the Calendar uses physical observations to track events, export const BUT_WHY = ` Because I think the Gregorian sucks. Are you a calendar or a stopwatch? -Even epochal time, as in the UNIX epoch, hides the political nightmare of counting milliseconds behind deceptively simple APIs. +Even UTC can only obscure the political nightmare of trying to be both. Leap seconds embody their friction. I want to live on Earth, under its mystery and grandeur, under its tantalizing patterns and perplexing reality. So, I made a way of helping me keep track of, and celebrate, celestial splendor. +Who cares if hours or years change length? Isn't that part of the beauty? `.trim().split(/\n/g) export const SEASONS_WHAT = ` @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export const MONTHS_WHAT = ` Months begin with the first day of the new moon. Each is characterized by an archetype or icon. On the first day of the full moon of each month, a holiday takes place. -Feasting, dancing, storytelling, and other festivals are common. +Feasting, dancing, storytelling, and other festivities are common. It is bad luck to work too hard on holidays, lest you outshine the moon. `.trim().split(/\n/g).join(' ')