1.9 Calendar and Time
Years in Aetolia are numbered from the first day since the end of the Creator's Monomachy. An Aetolian day is approximately 4 real-life hours. The following table represents how long certain time periods are in real life hours: Aetolian Time Real hours ---------------------------------------------- 1 day 4 hours 1 week 24 hours 1 month 100 hours 1 season 300 hours 1 year 1200 hours You can see the current Aetolian date using the DATE command. The calendar for the current Aetolian month can be viewed using the CALENDAR command. You can also add notes to it with the syntaxes outlined in HELP CALENDAR NOTES. You can also convert between Aetolian dates and OOC dates by the following methods: To convert from Aetolian to OOC dates: DATE <day> <month> <year> <era> Example: DATE 4 VARIACH 304 MA vs DATE 4 CELES 1 AC To convert from OOC to Aetolian dates: DATE <month>/<day>/<year> <hour> Example: DATE 12/21/2012 12 To look at a specific month in a specific Aetolian year: CALENDAR <month name> <year> Example: CALENDAR SAPIARCH 500 Note: You can also configure your time to your time zone. CONFIG TIMEZONE for more information. This only works for time and not for date. The Aetolian year is divided into 50 weeks of 6 days each. The names of the weekdays are as follows: 1) Closday 2) Tisday 3) Falsday 4) Quensday 5) Kinsday 6) Gosday The year also divides into 12 months, with each month having 25 days in it. As there are 300 days in a year, this means that the cycle of weeks and the cycle of months match every 6 months, with both Sapiarch and Celes 1st falling upon Closdays. The final day of the Midnight Age was the 24th of Chakros, 513. The 25th of Chakros began year 0 of the new era, AC, and upon this day several months were renamed by authority of the Grand Library. See Public post 7087 for more information. The names of the months, past and present, are as follows: # Month AC Season Month MA ---------------------------------------------------- 1) Sapiarch (mid-winter) Variarch 2) Severin (late winter) Severin 3) Ios (early spring) Ios 4) Dharos (mid-spring) Arios 5) Chakros (late spring) Chakros 6) Omeian (early summer) Khepary 7) Celes (mid-summer) Midsummer 8) Lleian (late summer) Lleian 9) Ivolnos (early autumn) Lanosian 10) Lexadian (mid-autumn) Niuran 11) Slyphian (late autumn) Slyphian 12) Haernos (early winter) Haernos The four seasons are as follows: Season Dates AC Dates MA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter 10 Haernos - 9 Ios 10 Haernos - 9 Ios Spring 10 Ios - 9 Omeian 10 Ios - 9 Khepary Summer 10 Omeian - 9 Ivolnos 10 Khepary - 9 Lanosian Autumn 10 Ivolnos - 9 Haernos 10 Lanosian - 9 Haernos SEE ALSO: HELP HOWLING, HELP CALENDAR NOTES
