Calendars in Worldbuilding.

[Ž.J.]

Hey guys!
I have been gone from Mythic Scribes for quite some time and decided to come back and check on the forums again.

The topic I want to discuss today, is fantasy calendars. More precisely, how do worldbuilders deal with them?
I will give an example with a calendar I created for a specific nation/civilization inside my fantasy world building project.

Here it is

• days in a year: 366
• months: 8 + 1 (there are 8 official months and one last month known as the "forgotten days", which covers the winder season (our months of December, January and February roughly.) and is 90 days long.)
• days in a month: 34 or 35 (there are four 34 day months and four 35 day months)
• leap years: every 17 years (during these leap years all months loose 4 days, except the 2nd one (Hafetan) which looses only 3. The forgotten days, dont change in duration and keep those 90 days.

Oh and it is a lunisolar calendar, so by definition it is flawed since its almost impossible to track both the movements of the moon and sun in a single system. And the planet has the same solar year as earth, so a year is 364.23 days
I know it is quite basic, but at the same time I am terrible with numbers, so I would love to hear your own calendars and how you deal with this topic inside your worlds.

 

[ThinkerX]

I decided to keep mine simple, so as not to distract from the story.

The main world has 12 months of 28 days each, plus a day for each Equinox and Solstice, which are major holidays. The lunar year aligns with the solar year.

 

[pmmg]

I decided to keep it simple. 12 months, 30 days each. 360 in a year.

I also thought the days would be longer, but its never come up in the story. Other than acknowledging the season, the months and days have never been mentioned.

I had a holiday once due to a challenge from ban. Otherwise id have not had any of those in the story.

 

[Ž.J.]

I decided to keep mine simple, so as not to distract from the story.

The main world has 12 months of 28 days each, plus a day for each Equinox and Solstice, which are major holidays. The lunar year aligns with the solar year.

Is it a single calendar for the whole world of your setting, or just of a specific nation/civilization?

 

[Meema]

I decided to keep mine simple, so as not to distract from the story.

The main world has 12 months of 28 days each, plus a day for each Equinox and Solstice, which are major holidays. The lunar year aligns with the solar year.

I did the exact same thing. Just keeps it easier.