;;; cal-mayan.el --- calendar functions for the Mayan calendars.
-;; Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>
;; Edward M. Reingold <reingold@cs.uiuc.edu>
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
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-;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Commentary:
;; Comments, improvements, and bug reports should be sent to Reingold.
;; Technical details of the Mayan calendrical calculations can be found in
+;; ``Calendrical Calculations'' by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold,
+;; Cambridge University Press (1997), and in
;; ``Calendrical Calculations, Part II: Three Historical Calendars''
;; by E. M. Reingold, N. Dershowitz, and S. M. Clamen,
;; Software--Practice and Experience, Volume 23, Number 4 (April, 1993),
(require 'calendar)
-(defconst calendar-mayan-days-before-absolute-zero 1137140
+(defconst calendar-mayan-days-before-absolute-zero 1137142
"Number of days of the Mayan calendar epoch before absolute day 0.
-According to the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correlation. This correlation is
-not universally accepted, as it still a subject of astro-archeological
-research. Using 1232041 will give you Spinden's correlation; using
-1142840 will give you Hochleitner's correlation.")
+This is the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correlation used by almost all experts,
+but some use 1137140. Using 1232041 gives you Spinden's correlation; using
+1142840 gives you Hochleitner's correlation.")
(defconst calendar-mayan-haab-at-epoch '(8 . 18)
"Mayan haab date at the epoch.")