Najer Calendar

The Najer Calendar is the calendar used by Najer and all Najer people throughout the world.

Organization
The calendar divides years into periods of seven months, with 72 days per month. One year in the Najer calendar is equivalent to 1.75 years in the Traveler's Calendar (1 Najer year is seven IRL days. 1 Traveler's year is four IRL days). The year begins on the first day of Fidan and ends on the last day of Tian.

There are 6 days in a Najer week (with a total of 12 weeks per Najer month). The days go, from first to last: Baandeen, Ravdeen, Eshdeen, Joondeen, Ahjdeen, Asradeen. Each day is associated with a substance or concept (Voice, soil, flame, wind, water, and silence, respectively).

The counting of years is measured from the discovery of the Buried Bells, religious artifacts important to Najer, with the notation 'AB' (standing for After the Bells.) Time before the discovery (1 AB) is marked with the notation BB (standing for Before the Bells). There is no year zero.

History
In Najer's distant past, calendars were similar but largely failed to agree on how to identify how to subdivide the years and from what date to measure time from. Various tribes used their own system of measurement.

Come the discovery of the Buried Bells, and Najer's subsequent growth under the leadership of Pom Basha and alliance with the Silver Coalition, people agreed that time should be measured from the date of the Bell's discovery. The Basha tribe used a complex system of dividing the months and years, where each month was divided into two, for a total of 14 months with 36 days each, and years were divided according to eras based on astrological signs. This system never caught on with the majority, as formal record-keeping was spotty in the early years of unified Najer.

Instead, the current system was officially adopted after the fall of the Sterling Crownlands and the shift in governance from the Bashas to the Mahait people of Wobambi-on-Sea.

Examples
March 1st, 2022 =

January 8th, 2024 =

November 15th, 2020 =