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Fomar Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#1: Feb 21st 2011 at 12:13:28 PM

I am working on a Space Opera story. let's just call it The Verse for now. And I need some help working out an Alternative Calendar. The central world of humanity has a four hundred and twenty day year. How would this be broken down into months in the year, weeks in a month, and days in a week.

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RalphCrown Short Hair from Next Door to Nowhere Since: Oct, 2010
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#2: Feb 21st 2011 at 12:16:29 PM

The quick and dirty possibility is seven-day weeks, five-week months, twelve-month years. No leftovers.

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Pyroninja42 Forum Villain from the War Room Since: Jan, 2011
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#3: Feb 21st 2011 at 1:34:40 PM

Well, we all know that in the future, everyone will be using [[url:http://www.timecube.com/ TIMECUBE.]]

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#4: Feb 21st 2011 at 5:51:20 PM

Boy, I hope that site is run by a troll and not someone who actually believes that stuff. He seems like someone who went off the deep end a long, long time ago.

On the subject; why can't you just dice it up into twelve months like we have now? It requires months of roughly forty/sixty days each, and we're already familiar with twelve month years. Or you could go with twenty four months of the standard roughly thirty days. And keep the weeks the same length. Now, doing the first requires coming up with more month names, but you could go with the old Roman tradition of using actual people's names to do so. Or pagan god's names. Alternatively, you could just dissect the whole mess up into fourths. Name the fourths, then name the weeks within those fourths.

Really, this doesn't seem that hard. Hell, depending on how many societies you have you could do it both ways. Incidentally, I once read a book that ditched months had had weeks of ten days, each named after/for a saint/real person, adding up to around thirty six weeks, with some days left over. Ruins of Ambrai. Good book.

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