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The Arthurian Isles
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Postby The Arthurian Isles » Wed Jun 29, 2016 5:52 am

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The Arthurian Federation has used its own calendar since it was settled in 910 A.D. The year 910 A.D. is the first year of the Arthurian calendar and is known as 0 A.R. (Arthurian Reckoning) - the year in Arthurian Reckoning can therefore be found by subtracting 910 from the Gregorian calendar. A year in the Arthurian calendar is the same length as that of the Gregorian calendar, that is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds but the months follow the lunar cycle and are thus split into 12 periods of 30 days. To make up for the shortfall of days, five additional days unaffiliated with any month are added into the middle and start of the Arthurian calendar and a sixth day is included in the midsummer every four years to account for leap years.

The months in Arthurian Reckoning are corruptions of the Ancient Arthurian names, though their meaning can still be understood in modern-day Arthurian. They are based primarily on major agricultural or religious events in the year.

Month NumberMonth NameRelationship to Gregorian Calendar
2 Jol22 December
1Eftirjol23 December to 21 January
2Solmanuður22 January to 20 February
3Røda21 February to 22 March
4Astron23 March to 21 April
5Trirmalking22 April to 21 May
6Forlit22 May to 20 June
1 Lit21 June
Midtenvetur22 June
ØferlitLeap Day
2 Lit23 June
7Eftirlit24 June to 23 July
8Wodmanuður24 July to 22 August
9Helogmanuður23 August to 21 September
10Veturfuldmanuður22 September to 21 October
11Bloðmanuður22 October to 20 November
12Forjol21 November to 20 December
1 Jol21 December


The Joldag (Yule Days) straddle the new year while the Litdag (Lithe Days) mark the midwinter. Both are placed outside of any month and are primarily holidays and feast days. Midtenvetur (Midwinter's Day) and Øferlit (Overlithe) are not assigned to any day of the week - they are nameless in that sense - and in this way every day of the year retains the same weekday designation from year to year, unlike the Gregorian calendar.

The days of the week are, starting from Saturday in the Gregorian calendar, Stjarndag, Soldag, Mandag, Trejdag, Himildag, Sjordag and Hardag. Hardag is usually a half-day replete with evening feasts and so correlates more with Sunday (Soldag) in most countries, especially those with a strong Christian tradition.
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Corunia and Mironor
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Postby Corunia and Mironor » Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:31 pm

DD/MM/YYYY
Gregorian calendar
Hours, minutes, seconds

Basically the most generic western timekeeping system you can think of
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Namady
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Postby Namady » Wed Jun 29, 2016 5:07 pm

Go to [url]donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/calendar[/url], go to Save/Restore, and ctrl+v this:

{"year_len":336,"events":0,"n_months":12,"months":["Krisius","Johnuary","Marchus","Alakanu","Anishia","Johnius","Pavithiranicares","Terugas","September","October","November","December"],"month_len":{"Krisius":28,"Johnuary":28,"Marchus":28,"Alakanu":28,"Anishia":28,"Johnius":28,"Pavithiranicares":28,"Terugas":28,"September":28,"October":28,"November":28,"December":28},"week_len":7,"weekdays":["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"],"n_moons":0,"moons":[],"lunar_cyc":{},"lunar_shf":{},"year":2016,"first_day":6,"notes":{}}

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Eclius
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Postby Eclius » Wed Jun 29, 2016 5:13 pm

Hours a day and days a year differs by the planets. Eclisian Capital Mediolanum is located on Gliese 581g, which, time differs greatly from Earth.
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