Calendar and Timekeeping

Samorian Calendar

The Samorian Calendar and its variants are the most widespread across Nalbadonas, and even used on other continents.
It is a combination of a annual solar and monthly lunar calendar repeating in its entirety in a cycle of seven years.

Each month begins on the new moon. Thus, each month is exactly 28 days long, and further divided into four seven-day weeks. The name of the month is derived by the constellation containing the new moon. As such, on occasion, a month repeats itself.
The names of the months are as follows:

Seasons	Tithagry names	Noruvalon names	Maritime common names
Spring	Suthlicun	Zosliom	Sostiaifo
Spring	Idaljis	Idaugiz	Ithâihi
Spring	Toliphsun	Telipsom	Tayaiso
Summer	Gathaksis	Quasaepiz	Gâstâspi
Summer	Tirgom	Tirguemb	Tilva
Summer	Dathmirl	Dasmiur	Thâstmil
Fall	Khythpi	Whusqui	Dust
Fall	Agruthgom	Aeruos	Ahlostva
Fall	Masklon	Maezlen	Mâja
Fall	Oglemir	Eiluaemir	Oshemil
Winter	Coglenthil	Heiluaensiu	Kashensti
Winter	Idlan	Idlam	Aithia
Winter	Glythmarl	Luüsmaur	Shustmal

The Seven-year Cycle

	Year 1: Oak	Year 2: Rose	Year 3: Vine	Year 4: Cedar	Year 5: Thistle	Year 6: Fig	Year 7: Lotus
Months	Suthlicun	Suthlicun	Suthlicun	Suthlicun	Suthlicun	Suthlicun	Suthlicun
	Idaljis	Idaljis	Idaljis	Idaljis	Idaljis	Idaljis	Idaljis I
	Toliphsun	Toliphsun	Toliphsun	Toliphsun	Toliphsun	Toliphsun	Idaljis II
	Gathaksis I	Gathaksis	Gathaksis	Gathaksis	Gathaksis	Gathaksis	Toliphsun
	Gathaksis II	Tirgom I	Tirgom	Tirgom	Tirgom	Tirgom	Gathaksis
	Tirgom	Tirgom II	Dathmirl	Dathmirl	Dathmirl	Dathmirl	Tirgom
	Dathmirl	Dathmirl	Khythpi	Khythpi	Khythpi	Khythpi	Dathmirl
	Khythpi	Agruthgom	Agruthgom	Agruthgom	Agruthgom	Agruthgom	Khythpi
	Agruthgom	Masklon I	Masklon	Masklon	Masklon	Masklon	Agruthgom
	Masklon	Masklon II	Oglemir	Coglenthil	Coglenthil	Coglenthil	Masklon
	Coglenthil	Coglenthil	Coglenthil	Idlan I	Idlan	Idlan	Coglenthil
	Idlan	Idlan	Idlan	Idlan II	Glythmarl I	Glythmarl	Idlan
	Glythmarl	Glythmarl	Glythmarl	Glythmarl	Glythmarl II		Glythmarl
Vernal Equinox	12th of Idaljis	8th of Idaljis	4th of Idaljis	28th of Suthlicun	24th of Suthlicun	20th of Suthlicun	16th of Idaljis I
Summer Solstice	18th of Gathaksis II	14th of Tirgom I	10th of Tirgom	6th of Tirgom	2nd of Tirgom	26th of Gathaksis	22nd of Gathaksis
Autumnal Equinox	24th of Khythpi	20th of Agruthgom	16th of Agruthgom	12th of Agruthgom	8th of Agruthgom	4th of Agruthgom	28th of Khythpi
Winter Solstice	2nd of Idlan	26th of Coglenthil	22th of Coglenthil	18th of Idlan I	14th of Idlan	10th of Idlan	6th of Idlan

Notes

• Year 2 of the cycle has no month of Khythpi.
• Year 3 of the cycle has a month of Oglemir; no other year of the cylce has this month¹

The New Year

In some places, New Year's Day is observed on the first of Idaljis (I). In this case, most years have 364 days, except for the sixth year of the cycle, which only has 336.
In other places, New Year's Day is observed with the Vernal Equinox, giving each year exactly 360 days. In this system, years 4 through 6 of the cycle begin with Suthlicun I, years 1, 2, and 6 end with Idaljis II, and year 7 of the cycle ends with Idaljis III.
This causes some discrepancies in records of events and dates between the first of Idaljis and the vernal equinox occuring in different places.

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Footnotes

1. In some places, Masklon II of the second year is also called Oglemir