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==Calendar== | ==Calendar== | ||
There are two main calendar systems in use today on Calémere: the Western and the Chlouvānem ones — the Western calendar has spread to most continents due to colonization, while the Chlouvānem calendar is in use in the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]] and fellow countries of the Eastern Bloc (except for Greater Skyrdagor, which uses the native Skyrdagor Calendar for cultural events and the Western one for business). Both main calendars are based on the 418-day long solar year, but are very different in their treatment of months (none of them link actual months to the moon): the Chlouvānem calendar has 14 months of mostly 30 days (four of them have 29 and two have 31), while the Western one has 29 periods of 14 days and a special one, halfway through the year, of 12. Neither calendar has a concept similar to our week — the Western calendar's months are short enough to serve also that purpose, while the Chlouvānem calendar uses a system of 17-day long lunar phases (originally linked to the natural moon cycles, today bureaucratically standardized).<br/>A further difference between them is that in the Western calendar, days begin at midnight; in the Chlouvānem one, they begin at dawn. | There are two main calendar systems in use today on Calémere: the Western and the Chlouvānem ones — the Western calendar has spread to most continents due to colonization, while the Chlouvānem calendar is in use in the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]] and some fellow countries of the Eastern Bloc (except for Greater Skyrdagor, which uses the native Skyrdagor Calendar for cultural events and the Western one for business). Both main calendars are based on the 418-day long solar year, but are very different in their treatment of months (none of them link actual months to the moon): the Chlouvānem calendar has 14 months of mostly 30 days (four of them have 29 and two have 31), while the Western one has 29 periods of 14 days and a special one, halfway through the year, of 12. Neither calendar has a concept similar to our week — the Western calendar's months are short enough to serve also that purpose, while the Chlouvānem calendar uses a system of 17-day long lunar phases (originally linked to the natural moon cycles, today bureaucratically standardized).<br/>A further difference between them is that in the Western calendar, days begin at midnight; in the Chlouvānem one, they begin at dawn. | ||
The Western year's first day is in the middle of the northern hemisphere winter; the Chlouvānem year's is the autumn equinox (the first day of the Western year is the 139th of the Chlouvānem one). | The Western year's first day is in the middle of the northern hemisphere winter; the Chlouvānem year's is the autumn equinox (the first day of the Western year is the 139th of the Chlouvānem one). | ||
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# ''Dérecótunegorónen'' | # ''Dérecótunegorónen'' | ||
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==Time== | |||
Calémerian countries have, today, two main official timekeeping systems in use: Western time (''sóta renóču''), used in most of the planet, and Chlouvānem time (''sóta imúnigúronen'') used in only four countries - the Chlouvānem Inquisition, Brono, Fathan, and iKalurilut - together with about 20% of the planet's population. Other systems are in unofficial use in some areas, either for specific contexts (like liturgy in the Skyrdegan countries) or in remote, undeveloped areas following traditional cultures (especially in rural Fárásen and southern Védren). | |||
The two main differences between them are that in Western time the calendar day begins at midnight, while in Chlouvānem time it begins in the early morning. Furthermore, they use two different time zone (and, prior to that, longitude) systems: Western time has its prime meridian passing through Mánébodin, the capital of Ceria, while the Chlouvānem prime meridian passes through Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Chlouvānem Inquisition's capital (143º35′11.6586″ E in the Western longitude system). Due to this difference, in overlapping time zones the Chlouvānem time is usually 18′08″ (in Calémerian time) behind the Western one; in the Western time zone system, for example, the time zone of Līlasuṃghāṇa is identified as CER+12:53′40″. | |||
While every definition up to the day is calendar-dependent, hours and minutes are of standardized length throughout the whole world and are mainly based on duodecimal divisions. Here, base 10 notation is used; note however that the Chlouvānem language has a duodecimal number system and uses a base 12 notation. In the following explanations, the first term given is Cerian, the second is Chlouvānem.<br/> | |||
A Calémerian hour (''sémóra/garaṇa'') is divided into 72 basic units (''čóden/raila''), each one of about 54.6805 seconds of Earth; one Calémerian hour is therefore roughly equivalent to 65′37″ on Earth. As one Calémerian day is made of 32 hours, its length in Earthly units is of about 35 hours, and the 418-days-long Calémerian year lasts about 609.6 days on Earth. | |||
The basic units (''čódené/railai'') are divided in 48 secondary units (''neséno/namišoe''), each one of about 1.8986 seconds of Earth. Their smaller divisions (not commonly used in daily life) are normal duodecimal ones (1/12, 1/144, 1/1728...). | |||
==World politics== | ==World politics== | ||