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I noticed a program to calculate the Mayan calendar called Burden of Time is no longer available online. Luckily, I saved the entire thing. Everything you need is in the zip file. Enjoy.

Installation notes
1. At least 800x600 screen resolution is required to properly display the program. At this resolution, it will run "full screen". At higher resolutions, it will run in a window. You can set this resolution in the WINDOWS Control Panel.

2. The Burden of Time uses several special True Type fonts. Three of them, "daysbold, "dayscodicile", and "tun" are copyrighted by Ecological Linguistics, which stipulates that they are to be used only for non-commercial purposes. An additional font, called "mayan", is freeware by Karen Helene Jensen. All of these fonts must be installed to run burden of time. Install the fonts like any other fonts. Because these are "true type" you can se them in word processors once they are installed.

3. Burden of Time requires a standard WINDOWS .dll file, VBrun200.dll, to operate. Since this .dll is used by many applications, it is likely already in your WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory. If not, you may wish to copy the file from the installation directory to the system directory.

Known Bugs
1. Exiting then re-entering "Epigraphers' Tools" without entering a new date sometimes causes errors in new calculations until a new date is entered.

2. Using the "reconstruct date" option when the only missing long count coefficient is the baktun may produce an error. This can be avoided by entering the kin coefficient as an unknown as well.

3. Though not a bug, reporting of BC dates as "minus" dates in Epigraphers' Tools may be misleading. In this program, 3114 BC = -3114, not -3113, the convention often used by astronomers. This is explained in the "notes" in Epigraphers' Tools, but may be overlooked.

4. Despite the on-screen instruction to the contrary, use the day name muluk' rather than muluk when entering tzolk'in dates.