Calendar

**The current month is:**
Prigemen of 24 NE (New Aoshanti Calendar)
Prigemen of 14,608 PR (Post-Imperial Calendar)
Prigemen of 74,608 ID (Imperial Calendar)

## New Aoshanti Calendar

The New Aoshanti Calendar (NAC) is a standard international calendar system which began 14,584 years after the fall of the old Aoshanti Empire, at around the start of the Second Concourse War. In-universe, it was created by the Ascendancy of the Broken Ring to mark the start of a new era, one defined not by the fall of the Aoshanti Empire but by its rebirth. It was later adopted for international use by the GCTO after the fall of the Ascendancy, once the Aoshanti Concourse began trading with the outside world again and it was generally agreed that counting years in the tens of millennia was getting a bit absurd.

Out-of-character, the New Aoshanti Calendar represents the number of in-universe years which have passed since Aoshtai began, and is the standard means of dating things on the wiki, although national and cultural calendars exist. Prior to the advent of the New Aoshanti Calendar , the standard international dating system in-universe was the Post-Empire Calendar.

Dates after the start of the Second Concourse War are labeled NAC ("New Aoshanti Calendar") or NE ("New Era"). Dates before the start of the Second Concourse War are labeled BNAC ("Before New Aoshanti Calendar"), or BNE ("Before New Era"). There is no year zero. The calendar goes from year 1 BNE to year 1 NE.

The New Aoshanti Calendar's years are 360 Earth days long, and its months are 30 Earth days long. For the purpose of international dating, the day-lengths of the planet Abzu are used, although every location is likely to count their days differently and to fit different numbers of days into a month.

The months used in the New Aoshanti Calendar are the same as the ones used in older Aoshanti calendar systems, and bear the names of ancient Aoshanti emperors:

* Month 1: Prigemen
* Month 2: Aldor
* Month 3: Agria
* Month 4: Hydrenia
* Month 5: Octavia
* Month 6: Priphos
* Month 7: Marcelia
* Month 8: Helvetion
* Month 9: Aresen
* Month 10: Murrius
* Month 11: Aulus
* Month 12: Lars

## Post-Empire Calendar

Until the start of the New Aoshanti Calendar, the post-Empire Aoshanti Calendar was one of the most widely used calendar systems in the Aoshtai Galaxy, and served as the galactic standard for timekeeping.

The Aoshanti calendar was derived from an ancient calendar used on the Aoshanti homeworld of Abzu. The original calendar was created by the Aoshanti Emperors as a reformed version of the Abzu calendar designed for galactic administration. The modern form of the calendar was created in the centuries after the Fall of Abzu. It used the Fall of Abzu as year 0, making all dates before it as "ante ruinam," or "AR" and all dates after it as "post ruinam," or "PR".

Aoshanti years are divided into twelve months of even length, named after former Aoshanti Emperors:

* Prigemen
* Aldor
* Agria
* Hydrenia
* Octavia
* Priphos
* Marcelia
* Helvetion
* Aresen
* Murrius
* Aulus
* Lars

The length of units such as days are not defined universally in the Aoshanti calendar. Each month consists of 2,592,000 seconds, with further units defined on a per planet basis.

### Abzu Calendar

While not universally accepted, the calendar of Abzu is commonly used as a *de facto* standard for dating. The Abzu month is divided into 30 days. Each day has 24 hours, each hour has 60 minutes, and each minute has 60 seconds.