1.9 Calendar and Time

Years in Aetolia are numbered from the first day of the Midnight Age.

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
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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>
Example: DATE 4 VARIACH 304

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 VARIACH 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) Kinday
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 Variach and Midsummer 1st falling upon Closdays. The names of the months are as follows:

1) Variach   (mid-winter)
2) Severin   (late winter)
3) Ios       (early spring)
4) Arios     (mid-spring)
5) Chakros   (late spring)
6) Khepary   (early summer)
7) Midsummer
8) Lleian    (late summer)
9) Lanosian  (early autumn)
10) Niuran   (mid-autumn)
11) Slyphian (late autumn)
12) Haernos  (early winter)

The four seasons are as follows:

Winter: 10 Haernos - 9 Ios
Spring: 10 Ios - 9 Khepary
Summer: 10 Khepary - 9 Lanosian
Autumn: 10 Lanosian - 9 Haernos

SEE ALSO: HELP HOWLING, HELP CALENDAR NOTES