reply to post by BBalazs
Well, the Long Count is just counting. The word is even right in its name. The Long Count is linear in the same way that we keep track of years. There
is no built in reset point in our timekeeping system. In fact the Long Count served much the same purpose as us keeping track of years. A date was
primarily composed of a haab date and a tzolkin date. This was called the Calendar Round. However, the Calendar Round repeated every 52 years so it
couldn't be used to refer to events that happened in the past or were going to happen in the future. Thus, the Long Count was born. You can even
break the units of the Long Count down into similar units of our own calendar.
k'in = days
winal = months
tun = years
katun = "decades"
baktun = "centuries"
When one consider the purpose of the Long Count and the way it was constructed, while comparing it to our own calendar system, it becomes quite
apparent that it was a linear calendar.

