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<tr><td></td><td>'''Mo'''</td><td>'''Tu'''</td><td>'''We'''</td><td>'''Tu'''</td><td>'''Fr'''</td><td>'''Sa'''</td><td>'''Su'''</td></tr> | <tr><td></td><td>'''Mo'''</td><td>'''Tu'''</td><td>'''We'''</td><td>'''Tu'''</td><td>'''Fr'''</td><td>'''Sa'''</td><td>'''Su'''</td></tr> | ||
− | <tr><td>''' | + | <tr><td>'''5th Week'''</td><td>''1st'' | 1 | 1</td><td>''2nd'' | 2 | 2</td><td>''3rd'' | 3 | 3</td><td>''4th'' | 4 | 4</td><td>''5th'' | 5 | 5</td><td>''6th'' | 6 | 6</td><td>''7th'' | 7 | 7</td></tr> |
<tr><td>'''2nd Week'''</td><td>''8th'' | 8 | 8</td><td>''9th'' | 9 | 9</td><td>''10th'' | 10 | 10</td><td>''11th'' | 11 | 11</td><td>''12th'' | 12 | 12</td><td>''13th'' | 13 | 13</td><td>''14th'' | 14 | 14</td></tr> | <tr><td>'''2nd Week'''</td><td>''8th'' | 8 | 8</td><td>''9th'' | 9 | 9</td><td>''10th'' | 10 | 10</td><td>''11th'' | 11 | 11</td><td>''12th'' | 12 | 12</td><td>''13th'' | 13 | 13</td><td>''14th'' | 14 | 14</td></tr> | ||
<tr><td>'''3rd Week'''</td><td>''15th'' | 15 | 15</td><td>''16th'' | 16 | 16</td><td>''17th'' | 17 | 17</td><td>''18th'' | 18 | 18</td><td>''19th'' | 19 | 19</td><td>''20th'' | 20 | 20</td><td>''21st'' | 21 | 21</td></tr> | <tr><td>'''3rd Week'''</td><td>''15th'' | 15 | 15</td><td>''16th'' | 16 | 16</td><td>''17th'' | 17 | 17</td><td>''18th'' | 18 | 18</td><td>''19th'' | 19 | 19</td><td>''20th'' | 20 | 20</td><td>''21st'' | 21 | 21</td></tr> |
Revision as of 23:23, 20 December 2018
An official calendar for the Unity Earth Sphere Alliance was not formally established until early in the Second Age by Pendragon Scott Sagen. The primary derivation of the new system was the establishment of the Alliance Year count for counting years, and the system of Ages that would be used until the end of the Alliance.
The Calendar itself was a 365-day cycle based on the Atayan calendar, which itself was based on the calendar of the ancestral Lion Clan, believed to be similar in form to the the calendar of the Eladamri. The Lion Clan however used a lunar calendar, so while dates are expressed similarly, they do not correlate. The year is broken down into twelve months, each with between 30 or 31 days. Weeks are also used.
Calendar layout
Exact dates are given in a number of ways. Months of the year do not have specific universally recognized names, instead they are numbered, both twelve for the year and three for each season as the seasons occurred in Arindell during the start of the Golden Age. Exact dates are expressed as the day of the month or the day of the season.
While the dates do not correspond exactly to the actual seasons (especially accounting for regional variations), the recognized first day of winter is the first day of the year, with each season "lasting" three months. Much like many other aspects of the Alliance calendar, this can get more than a little confusing, especially accounting for regional variances.
The first day of the year could be written as:
- The 1st day of the 1st month
Or:
- The 1st day of Winter
Calendar
Month Number | Season Number | Number of Days | 1st Day of month |
1st Month | 1st Month of Winter | 31 | 1 |
2nd Month | 2nd Month of Winter | 30 | 32 |
3rd Month | 3rd Month of Winter | 31 | 61 |
4th Month | 1st Month of Spring | 30 | 1 |
5th Month | 2nd Month of Spring | 31 | 31 |
6th Month | 3rd Month of Spring | 30 | 62 |
7th Month | 1st Month of Summer | 30 | 1 |
8th Month | 2nd Month of Summer | 31 | 31 |
9th Month | 3rd Month of Summer | 30 | 30 |
10th Month | 1st Month of Fall | 31 | 1 |
11th Month | 2nd Month of Fall | 30 | 32 |
12th Month | 3rd Month of Fall | 31 | 61 |
Yearly
Date formats: Day of Month | Day of Season | Day of Year
1st | 1 | 1
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History
Atayans were somewhat unique among cultures of the region in that they did not use either a lunar calendar or one based around the equinoxes. When the society was still a group of simple farmers, they took up the tradition of counting the first day of winter as the first of the year. By the time extant records began, the first day frost appeared at dawn in a specific field became "the first day" for all of Ataya. This obviously caused significant problems with record-keeping, as it meant that the length of each year varied, sometimes heavily, and the actual date of the first day could take several days to reach the outlying provinces.
Sometime around the end of the Dynastic Period, the Attayans fixed the date at a seemingly random point(not aligned with any lunar or solar events) for the first of the year and the first day of winter, and declared that going forward a new year would begin every 365 days. This calendar had already been long in use by Eieber's era, and was thus adopted for the new Alliance.