Stoneworks MC Wiki:Calendar

__INDEX__A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single, specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system. A calendar can also mean a list of planned events, such as a court calendar or a partly or fully chronological list of documents.

There are several used systems of recording dates in the world of Stoneworks. In attempts to create a concise way of recording in-lore dates, several attempts at creating calendar systems have been made.

Jagdas Crisis Calendar
The first known universal calendar was the Jagdas Crisis Calendar. As its name suggests, it was initially used to measure the time between the Jagdas Crisis and all other events in Rathnir. While used to roughly ascribe past events in lore, it was not used to measure time since the start of Rathnir server-side. It uses the abbreviation BJC for 'Before Jagdas Crisis' and AJC for 'After Jagdas Crisis'. Many of the players who started using this calendar were themselves from Jagdas, and wrote much of the lore utilizing the BJC designations in the early days of Rathnir's opening.

Elder Calendar
The Elder Calendar is a collaboratively-created calendar, constructed by Stoney and a team of senior lore experts and writers from both Rathnir and Eldham. It is from these veteran writers that the term 'Elder Calendar' was created.

Officially implemented on April 6th 2022, or the summer of, it uses a series of eras marked with various abbreviated periods, and has four gregorian calendar days per year. The calendar starts with the winter of 0 TE on September 25, 2020. As the Traveler's Era was originally called Stoneworks Modern Period, the abbreviation SMP rather than TE was used. After a popular vote on July 15, 2022, the current calendar Era was renamed to Traveler's Era.

Hybrid versions
Some variants of the Elder Calendar hybridize it with the Jagdas Crisis Calendar. Instead of using SPP, SJP, SIP, and TE, they may use BJC and AJC, or BJC and TE. This is to avoid the use of more than two designations, which may be incorrectly interpreted or create confusion. This hybrid system adds an additional 400 years to the calendar, and is valued by some who prefer the world to have an older feel.

Geologic Timescale
While not a true calendar, the Geologic Timescale is of note due to its scale and almost universal use. Originally created by Dr. Tara Sauranis on August 2nd 2021 to designate geologic time periods, it uses names of locations in many lands, and the contents of rocks, to designate periods of deep time. It is used primarily by writers of geological, biological, and other scientific lore- especially within the Stoneworks Paleontological Society, but hardly ever outside the realm of academia.

Potatoist Calendar
The Potatoist Calendar is used by Potatoists to Organise dates. Its based around the creation of the god Nebimepat at 0E1. The calendar is divided into three eras of which the zero era (0E), the first era (1E), and the second era (2E) are based around the worlds of Paxia, Jagdas, And Rathnir. Years are measured in real life days so that each year is a day in real life, for example Rathnir was launched in 2E1.

Daelyrian Calendar
The Daelyrian Calendar is used by the peoples of the subcontinent of Helmia and the nation of Daelyria. It is based around the beginning of the first Daelyrian Kingdom, and uses the abbreviation AD for year designation after the founding of Daelyria and BD before the founding of Daelyria. It does not have a year 1 AD. It originates from the Daelyrian and Draconist people, with the number of days in a week corresponding to the amounts of gods in the primary daelyrian pantheon. In this system Rathnir officially launched in the year 68BD. The conversion from IRL time to Daelyrian calendar time follows the standard minecraft day and night cycle, meaning every 5.3 days one year passes.

It traditionally features:
 * 14 days a week
 * 6 regular months per year, with 4 weeks per month
 * A last irregular month that has 29 days; 2 weeks and 1 special day of celebration, called Yel Yrianys. Every 4 years this is 2 days instead of 1.

Soleannen Calendar
The Soleannen Calendar is a calendar used originally in the Soleannen faith, most notably in the Empire of Escharia. It marks the first year of its calendar with the founding of the city of Soleanna. It uses the BSC and ASC designations, and in it Rathnir officially launched in 1568 ASC. Years were measured for every IRL week prior to the Elder Calendar's officialization. It is commonly used in Nieden, and is one the most widely used in the world.

Twin Dragon Calendar
The Twin Dragon Calendar is the calendar used by the Grand Temple of the Twin Dragon faith, as well as the governments of the Aurlunor Velande, Ryzan (since the Third Tsardom of Ryzan), Dominion of Ashura and Centaris with the Huitca Federation previously using it. It uses the designations BCA for 'Before Celestial Awakening' and ACA for 'After Celestial Awakening', with the Celestial Awakening itself being the event wherein Sareariel Lelya-Earcala was canonized as the Celestial Matron of the realm of Rathnir. The calendar recognizes a Year 1 (which is referred to as CA), as well as an occasional 32nd day of the month every millennium. It also may record an extra 33rd day every 10,000 years.

The calendar originally recognized one year for every IRL month, and gained wide traction even outside the Twin Dragon community due it being a well-known standard for pre-server start lore dates. However, after the Elder Calendar's officialization, it has slowly been falling out of widespread use, and some authors instead record four IRL days as one year similarly to the Elder Calendar.