Calendar
Roshanri Calendar
The Roshanri Calendar is based on an ancient system of timekeeping from a long lost human empire. The calendar is divided into four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, with Spring being the beginning of the IC calendar year. Each season is divided into three months, each with 28 days each.
Seasons
The IC calendar is divided into the four major season of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. During the IC season players may choose to roleplay at any date within that season, and are not restricted to playing one month at a time. Each change in season is marked by a lunar eclipse when the larger moon, Janeh, is eclipsed by Roshanri. When the eclipse occurs the moon shimmers in color that corresponds with the season: soft green for spring, gold for summer, red for fall, and white for winter.
Months
There are three months in each season, and each of which has 28 days within them. Players can choose to play in any month within the current IC seasons. It is important to keep track of when your threads take place, so as to avoid odd time inconsistencies. At the end of each month, the night of the 28th day, the smaller moon Cintho passes closer to Roshanri and eclipses the larger moon Janeh. The event is noted as the darkest day of the month.
The first month of the new year (Primus) corresponds with the month of March in the OOC calendar year.
Timekeeping
On Roshanri, and stemming from the Imperial tradition, the day begins at dawn rather than the end of the third watch or midnight. Most towns without a proper time piece center their day around the four cardinal times, dawn, noon, dusk and midnight. Where places with a timekeeping pieces like clocktowers, or water clocks orient their days in 24 hour increments, usually split in half for 12 hour light and dark cycles. They then subdivide their hours into 60 minutes, with each minute lasting 60 seconds. The typical day begins at dawn, which is 12:00 AM (or 0:00 for full 24 hour schemes), noon is 6 AM , with dusk 12 AM. After dusk, clocks and timekeeping schemes that use 12 hour increments then switch to 12:00 PM at dusk, and 6 PM for Midnight. Some more technically minded cultures do away with the AM/PM split and simply start their day at 0:00 and run the full 24 hours, noon at 6:00 hours, dusk at 12:00, and midnight at 18:00.
Minor note: Roshanri does not use A.M. to mean Ante Meridiem which means Before Noon/Midday. Instead it stands for Ante Mortediem which means roughly the Before the Death of the Day/Sun. Likewise for P.M., which on Roshanri means Post Mortediem or After the Death of the Day/Sun.
Timestamp
A timestamp is used at the beginning of each thread to mark at what point in the season the thread takes place. Typically timestamps take the following format:
Day (1-28), Month, Year
For example, say a thread takes place in the winter season, in the year 3417. The timestamp would be as follows:
14th of Decem, 3417
