Kin (Maya) to Months (kin to mo)
1 kin (Maya) equals 0.03285488408 months (rounded).
How to convert kin (Maya) to months
To convert kin (Maya) to months, multiply the number of kin (Maya) by 0.03285488408. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply months by 30.436875.
months = kin (Maya) × 0.03285488408
Example: 10 kin (Maya) = 0.3285488408 months.
Months and years are not constant. This site uses the average Gregorian year of 365.2425 days, so one 'year' converts to 365.2425 days, not 365; use 'common year' for exactly 365 days.
About these units
Kin (Maya) (kin)
One day, the basic unit of the Maya Long Count calendar.
In Mayan languages the word kʼin also means sun, and as a calendar term it names a single day. It is the smallest unit counted in the Long Count, the Maya system for numbering days from a fixed starting point, and it normally appears as the last position in a written date.
Inscriptions carved on stone monuments open with an Initial Series that lists the larger cycles first and ends with the kin count, a number from 0 to 19. Reaching 20 kin rolls the count over into the next unit, the winal. Because the kin is simply one day, no uncertainty attaches to its size: it matches the modern 86,400 second day used here, even though the Maya reckoned days from their own observations and not by clock time. Scholars still debate how Long Count dates line up with European ones, but that affects the date assigned to a day, not its length.
1 kin (Maya) = 86,400 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Kʼin; Wikipedia: Maya calendar; Wikipedia: Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
Month (mo)
One twelfth of an average Gregorian year: 30.436875 days. Calendar months actually range from 28 to 31 days.
Month and Moon are cognates, and the unit began as the Moon's cycle of phases, about 29.53 days from one new moon to the next. The trouble is that 12 of these fall short of a solar year, so calendars have had to choose. The Islamic calendar stays purely lunar, so its year is about 11 days shorter than the solar year, while the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, using a 19-year cycle with an extra month. Even the start of a lunar month is still debated between observing the crescent and calculating it.
Gregorian months are a compromise that drifted far from the Moon. Their lengths run from 28 to 31 days, and this site uses their mean of 30.436875 days, one twelfth of the average year. The names also keep Roman history: September to December preserve the Latin numerals for seven to ten, since they were originally the seventh to tenth months, and Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed for Julius Caesar and Augustus. When a contract says month, check whether it means a calendar month or thirty days.
1 month = 2,629,746 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Month; Wikipedia: Lunar calendar
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