The Calendar

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The Akaeian calendar is a solar calendar developed in the 1st century of the common era by the Akaeian people. It originally had religious and cultural significance in the wider Classical era world. The calendar contains 12 months of exactly 30 days each. There are four seasons of three months in each year. There are exactly three weeks of ten days in every month. In order to fill the remaining 5 days, Akaeia has the 5 day holiday known as Aeonedeth, with the third day being the 21st of December, the winter solstice. The previous year ends on the Gegorian equivalent day 18 of December, with the next year officially beginning on the third day from the solstice. To solve the problem of leap years, an extra day, not belonging to any month, is inserted between the 6th and 7th months. The whole calendar has been thoroughly worked out by astronomical study and refined across the thousands of years of its use among classical peoples. The calendar is such that every day occurs on the same astronomical day as it did the year before, allowing a precision in Imperial records from centuries ago regarding the conditions and occurences of Imperial life.

During the Interregnum, the calendar experienced a sixty year decline in precision, leaving dates of the Interregnum era in doubt, but astronomically the calendar is stable and otherwise is remarkably precise across the long era of Imperial history.