Mr. 4X wrote:

rem72504@aol.com wrote in message news:56cbf535.0407271149.355ae5af@posting.google.com:

Update from The REAL Galactic Federation and The Spiritual Hierarchy
    July 13, 2004   1 Ahau, 13 Kumku, 12 Manik

Who the fuck uses this calendar?

    This is a truncated version of the Maya calendar.  A correct usage of the long-count calendar would have five number/name combinations (baktun [20 katuns], katun [20 tuns], tun [18 uinals], uinal [20 kin], kin [1 day]).  Ahau is a name for a specific year in the long count; kumku is a name of a specific 20-day month, and Manik is a name for a specific day.

    It looks like the Galactic Federation has usurped the 360-day Maya calendar to give Western-like year/month/day dates.  I'm surprised that these great minds can't give the full date.  This date is one that recurs in a single baktun, and with some frequency in the entire long count calendar.

    IOW, it's a bit like saying the date is Thursday the 26 of August.  Not very accurate.  But it looks cool, and ties in to the 2012 AD Maya calendar baktun change.