Old calendar

*not confuse with the Old mangarian calendar*

The **Old calendar** or the **Wylikigre calendar** [wɪl(ɪ)'ki:grə] is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year and additional leap day in every 4th year. It's still used only by Madropkian old Notritean church (which is the most conservative notritean church of all). Because of not enough accuracy (average length of a year is 365.25 days while tropical year lasts ~365, 2422 days) an excess day is added every 128 years. By now the difference between the Elikiy's calendar equals 899 years and 20 days despite 900 by the Old Calendar and 1 by Elikiy's calendar began on the same day.

## Principle of work

Every 4th year a leap day is added to Shoris (the 13th month). The year consists of 12 months for 28 days each and the 13th month of 29 or 30 days. It begins on September 23.

## History

The calendar counts years from the beginning of the Era of Light, September 22nd in 578 B.C. (899 O.U. by the Elikiy's calendar). But the earliest date recorded by the Old calendar that have been found by the moment dates back to 502 B.C. (826 O.U by the Elikiy's calendar). Despite of the fact the Wylikigre calendar is Notritean authors of the first Notritean holy books used Iaerla's calendar instead. In 498 B.C. (822 O.U by the Elikiy's calendar) the Suomne Empire converted to Notrite so they introduced the Old calendar as replacement of Iaerla's calendar. Since then the calendar spread all over the Notritean world displacing regional calendars.

As the beginning of a year was connected to the equinox day it was often moved. A year could start on 22nd or 23rd September. It was so till the beginning of a year wasn't fixed on 23rd September by the Suomnian imperator's Iaerla XI decree in 3 A.D. (318 O.U by the Elikiy's calendar). Then Suomnian empire wasn't as influential as before so some countries changed their calendar to the new modification but some didn't.

The big time gap between the main Notritean holiday Solerrovua taking place on the equinox and meaning the beginning of a new year and the actual first day of a new year had reached a week by 321 (1 by the Elikiy's calendar). This fact and departure of traditions in general caused the church schism. The leader of a new Notretean confession fighting for returning to customs introduced a new calendar which got his name. The Elikiy's calendar displaced the Old calendar even in almost all Old Notretean churches as it's far more accurate. The last state changed the Wylikigre calendar to the Elikiy's calendar was the Kingdom of Gapses officially changed the calendar in 1999 (1678 by the Elikiy's calendar) however the majority of population and even many state papers had been already using the Iarlian's modification for many years.

## Etymology of the Name

Before the introducing of the Elikiy's calendar the Old calendar had only one name - Wylikigre calendar. Wylikigre is suomnian word that means the Era of Light. Literally *"Litten time"* or *"Litten epoch"* from suomnian *likign - "to light".* Sometime after introducing of the Elikiy's calendar which eventually ousted the Wylikigre calendar, it was named "old". Now this name is more common than *"Wylikigre"*.