Date and Time

## Dates

The most common calendar used is that of the Gothes. It consists of a 308 day year with 11 months and a 6 day week.

The months are, Pa, Re, Ci, Vo, Mu, Xa, Ze, Bi, So, Pano, and Papa, with 31, 11, 41, 35, 24, 5, 7, 10, 58, 21, and 65 days respectively.

The days of the week are Abacus, Bookkeep, Cauldron, Daub, Esquire, and Farthing.

The year begins on the first of Pa which is the first day of Spring. Summer starts on the first day of Vo, Fall on the first day of So, and Winter on the first day of Papa.

(put the following text into the donjon calendar to get and interactive version)

http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/calendar/

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## Time

There are numerous competing time systems used throughout Orslozgo. Many towns and cities have separate clocks on their clock towers for each of the standards.

#### The Adam Scale

In the Adam scale, a day begins at dawn on the summer solstice. There are 10 hours, each with 100 minutes and each with 100 seconds.

#### The Arbornob Scale

In the Asbornob scale, a day is halfway done when the sun is highest in the sky on the summer solstice. There are 40 hours in a day, 8 minutes in an hour, 50 seconds in a minute, but each is broken up into half seconds. It is one of the "two circle" scales, meaning that it is typically numbered from 1-20 on a clock face and there is morning time and afternoon time.

#### The Dragon Scale

Created by bankers in South Cryn, it is also a two circle scale. The day begins at dawn on the summer solstice, is 32 hours long, 64 minutes in an hour, and 64 seconds in a minute.

#### The Offsetia Scale

The only time scale used in all of Offsetia, is one circled. The day begins at dawn on the Spring Equinox, has 25 hours in a day, 30 minutes in an hour, and 144 seconds in a minute.

#### The Astronomer Scale

This scale is almost never on any clock towers as it is used entirely by astronomers. It is focused heavily on the needs of tracking the location of planets, comets, and stars. The day begins at sunset on the summer equinox and there are 288 hours in a day and 288 minutes in each hour. The scale is normally written in base 12 and only the first third-half of the scale is widely used as it is entirely for night observations.

#### The Alchemists' Scale

This scale is not in any way a full time scale, it has only days and seconds. A day begins at midnight on the summer solstice, and contains 55440 seconds. It is used only to measure the times of reactions and nothing more.

#### The 12 Hands Scale

This scale was created for ease of use and simplicity but has not caught on, mainly due to its use of base 12 in it's time keeping. The day starts at midnight on the winter solstice. Each day has 24 hours with 240 minutes in each hour, with 12 seconds in each minute. Arbornob and the smaller towns surrounding it are the main users of the scale as it was developed by the mayor of Arbornob and made the only legal system to use. There are no clocks with other time systems allowed in Arbornob.