Difference between revisions of "Standard Calendar"

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The Standard Calendar is the accepted method of yearly chronography in the Mainlands, although it is not used in Petra. Although current time reckoning starts with the inception of the Alexandrian Church, the Standard Calendar is largely an updated version of the pre-Alexandrian lunar calendar.

The 299 day year is broken of into 8 months of 32 days, which alternate with 5 day long liturgical periods. Finally, the new year is celebrated with a three day festival that occurs at the start of spring that is not part of any month or liturgical period.

Neither weeks, nor the individual days of weeks, have names. Days are referred to, for example, as "first day", "second day," etc. When notated, the convention of the mainland is to distinguish the day, followed by the week, and ending with the month and year, as follows:
"2-3 Verdant 1394 FI" would be the second day of the third week of Verdant, 1,394 years from the inception of the church.

Each month is separated into 4 weeks of eight days. Spring generally runs from Renewal through the end of Verdant. Cleansing or Summercusp through Supplication usually marks summer. Autumn generally is Harvest through Wintercusp. The Fast of Anticipation tends to mark the beginning of winter.

The Calendar runs as follow:
Festival of the New Year
1st Period: Period of Renewal
1st Month: Heavenfall
2nd Period: Period of Rebirth
2nd Month: Verdant
3rd Period: Period of Cleansing
3rd Month: Summercusp
4th Period: Summer's Fasting
4th Month: Sunforge
5th Period: Period of Supplication
5th Month: Harvest
6th Period: Period of Gramercy
6th Month: Wintercusp
7th Period: Fast of Anticipation
7th Month: Whitefall
8th Period: Period of Supplication
8th Month: Darkreign