Calendar

A calendar is a system of organizing days, typically numbering days, weeks, and months to fill a period of one year. In Andaria, different cultures often have their own calendar, each one to account for that culture's particular changes in weather throughout the year.

However, one particular calendar system has risen to prominence in Andaria, largely owing to its straightforward organization of days around the sun's solstices and equinoxes, making it universally observable across cultures and climates. This calendar system is often called the Common Calendar.

 The Common Calendar The Common Calendar, sometimes called the Common Reckoning of Days, divides the year into four seasons--Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter--based on the length of daytime and nighttime throughout the year. This calendar system has the advantage of being observable regardless of geographic location and climate, and therefore makes easier the reckoning of days across cultural and climatic boundaries. A curious convention of the Common Calendar is its designation of some days as being outside of any month. Four days fall into this category: New Year's Dawn, Summer's Day, Autumnfall, and Winter's Night, corresponding to the Spring Equinox, the Summer Solstice, the Autumn Equinox, and the Winter Solstice, respectively. Besides these four days, there are twelve months, all of which consist of thirty days (except for Springset, which consists of 31 days). Days are divided into seven-day periods called weeks, with the days of the week being named as followed: Dawnsday, Mornsday, Noonsday, Downingsday, Duskenday, Evensday, and''' Nightsday. '''The days themselves are named according to the motions of the sun (in keeping with the general, universal theme of the Common Calendar), with particular days having special significance depending on the culture. Below is a chart of the months of the Common Calendar, along with significant days and homologous days under the Gregorian Calendar. Winterdying is one day longer than its homologous Gregorian counterpart