The Burden of Time is a free ware program designed with two purposes in mind The main screen is a straightforward Maya calendar converter that translates Classical Maya long counts into the Western calendar and vise versa. It is simple, but pretty, with lots of graphics.   From the main screen, an "Epigrapher's Tools" option can be put into action. This part of the program isn't as nice to look at, but includes a host of utilities for serious students and epigraphers.

• Graphic display of long count dates in several styles, including "face" and "symbol" glyphs, and "Codex" style
• Examples of inscriptions
• Help screens that explain the Maya calendar
• Input dates (in the Epigrapher's Tool's section) as Maya long counts, Gregorian and Julian dates, or Julian day numbers
• Instant conversion between all three versions of the GMT correlation
• Display Quiche and Aztec as well as Maya calendar round dates
• Day and Katun auguries from the Books of Chilam Balam
• Maya Astronomy: Moon age, Venus, and eclipse information
• Distance Date calculator
• Convert Ring and Serpent numbers to long count positions
• Days between calendar round dates (Classical and Post-Classical style)
• Period End dates
• Reconstruct dates with missing coefficients

If you have any trouble downloading or installing this program, please e-mail me.  A few users have reported difficulty downloading with certain browsers and down-load programs. I can e-mail the program to you if you encounter this problem. Please read the installation notes

Burden of Time is a Microsoft WINDOWS Program. For MAC users, I recommend trying Chac 1.1.1.  There does not seem to be a graphic, full featured Linux Maya Calendar Program, but CDAY (available in Linux and Windows formats) calculates dates in several calendar sysyems, including the Maya. 

1. The Burden of Time will run under Microsoft WINDOWS 3.x/95/98/XT.  It has not been tested with WINDOWS NT, ME, or 2000, but will likely run under these operating system as well.  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.  When you install Burden of Time, you will find these fonts in the installation directory.  Install them through Control Panel like any other fonts. Because these are "true type" you can se them in word processors once they are installed.  If you would like the fonts only,  download them here:
TUN-BOLD --- MAYAN --- DAYSBF --- DAYSCB ---DAYSCBI

3. Burden of Time requires a standard WINDOWS  .dll file, VBrun200.dll, to operate.  It is included in the installation directory. 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.

4. The installer also creates a deinstall program, which can be run to remove Burden of Time from your computer.  The fonts must be removed separately.