The Modern Calendar is a dating system acknowledged throughout the Civilised World. It numbers years from the Modern Epoch, abbreviated ME and BMEplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBME

Used to date years Before the Modern Epoch. (Before Modern Epoch). It is also called the Modern Era.

The numbering of years is based on epochs of the old Hirèrk Moonscale (HM), devised by the ancient civilisation of Miyarris, though with significant reforms to months of the year.

Historically many different calendarsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCalendars

Many different calendars have been used during Helevos' long history. Most societies used individual calendars starting either with their founding, or from some religious or political event. This made comparative history a confusing subject, particularly with the passage of time. were used around the civilised world.

The Hirèrk Moonscale was developed in ancient Miyarris, and was used as an international calendar throughout the Beryl Epoch, particularly for diplomacy and academic writing. It followed the phases of the moon Themsa, with each month being 41 days, making just under 10 months in a year.

Today ME is the official calendar of the two great powers of Ororr and Harthera, since this epoch roughly coincides with important events in the founding of both nations. Therefore most nations either use ME, or are aware of the current date and year in relation to their own national calendar.

The standard calendar has four seasons each of four months, 16 months making up a year of 414 days. Nations who follow the ME calendar have some variation in the naming of days and months within the year, and measure weeks in different ways.

Months have 26 days, with the exception of the months approaching the summer and winter equinox which have 25 days. The year is actually 414.2 days, so the calendar adds a leap year every 5 years, adding an extra day at the summer equinox month. This is a holiday in many nations.

• 1 day = 20 hours
• 1 year = 414 days plus a leap day every 5 years
• 1 month = 26 days, months of summer and winter equinox have 25

Many nations have a public holiday on the first day of each month, though many have specific religious holidays at various times in the year.

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National calendars most vary in terms of weeks. Ororr traditionally had an 8 day week cycle, while other nations use five or six-day weeks.

Harthera uses a six day week, inherited from the ancient Junda calendar, with 69 weeks in a solar year.

The upheavals caused by climate change and conflict during the Fifth Epoch HM led to the collapse of many former nationsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFormer nations

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In the decades after between the collapse of the Empire of Dor-en-Sann and the foundation of Ororr there were several competing systems. The first (used in Old Ororr) dated from the founding of the Mother Army (29 ME), the second from the Prophet Therion's declaration of the new nation of Ororr (52 ME), and the third (in the east) from the fall of the city of Galkesh. The old Imperial heartlands continued to use the Imperial Calendar until it was officially banned, whilst academics continued to date events from the start of the Fourth Epoc HM. Importantly, the Great Prophet refused to express an opinion on the subject, considering it a matter for the burgeoning Ororran bureaucracy.

Early Harthera had similar problems. The Junda conquerors officially used the traditional Junda Stormscale. The system of marking years by storm tides was vital to coastal life, but useless for agriculture since one storm year is 1.3 years of the Saloyan solar calendar.

By the third century ME, leaders in both nations saw the urgent need for calendar reform, desiring a more accurate and universal system which would benefit both international trade and co-operation. Traders and academics had for some time been using the Hirerk Moonscale for recording dates and shipping schedules, being both accurate and culturally neutral, and so both nations eventually adopted a modified form of it.

According to Moonscale, the Fifth Epoch (the shortest) ended in 701 ME, making modern times the Sixth Epoch HM. Since neither Harthera nor Ororr had any particular desire to reset their calendars on this date, a mutual decision was made to continue numbering years as before. Thereafter, years were referred to as being in the “Modern Epoch” or “Modern Era”.