Template talk:Karlheinz Stockhausen/Operas

October 2020

Copied from Template talk:Licht, which seems likely to be deleted: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 October 15#Licht.

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Order

Whence this unusual order? Normally, the seven operas are ordered either from Monday to Sunday or by year of completion (beginning with Thursday). Steinbach (talk) 20:11, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

As the lede of the main Licht article says: "The composer described the work as an 'eternal spiral' because 'there is neither end nor beginning to the week.'" Ideally, I suppose this template should be caused to rotate daily, so that it will always begin with the current weekday, but I don't know of any way of having that done automatically, and I'm sure I don't want to visit it daily in order to make the change manually. When I created it, perhaps it was a Wednesday, but it did seem essential to make the point that neither of the conventional orderings is sacrosanct (one often-stated opinion is that the cycle "actually ends" with Wednesday, for example). It is also instructive to read the edit histories of the seven Wikipedia articles on the weekdays themselves, which are chock full of the issue of what the day is with which the week "conventionally begins".—Jerome Kohl (talk) 21:37, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

I cobbled together a very inelegant template that will rotate the days, starting with the current day (which, as far as I can fathom, is the day in GMT). It's at Template:Licht/sandbox and looks like this:

Cheers, -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:51, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Fantastic! In my opinion, that is the perfect solution! Thank you!—Jerome Kohl (talk) 18:22, 25 April 2016 (UTC)