Calendar
Pavala has had a diverse array of calendars, many of which remain in use to the present day.
Meta calendar
The 'Meta calendar is the primary calendar used on this wiki. No actual Pavalan society uses the Meta calendar, but it is used to more intuitively keep track of time due to every year in the Meta calendar being approximately one Earth year. Present-day Pavala is around 10,000 Y, and each biennium (corresponding to a single 'Y') is composed of two Pavala-years: the first is known as the 'former' annum and the second as the 'latter' anum. For example, the first day of 9,000 Y would be written as 1 former 9,000 Y, while the last day of 9,000 Y would be written as 168 latter 9,000 Y.
- Bienniums are numbered beginning from 1.
- Biennium 1 is approximately the start of agriculture.
- There are 168 days in an annum, and two annums per biennium.
- The two annums are numbered from 1 to 2
- The 168 days are numbered from 1 to 168
- Every 7 annums a leap day is added.
- Dates are written BBBBB/A/DDD, or alternatively, DDD [former/latter] BB,BBB
- The 67th day of the 2nd annum of 7732 would be written 7,732/1/66, or alternatively, 67 latter 7,732
- The leading zeroes are optional
- The 67th day of the 2nd annum of 7732 would be written 7,732/1/66, or alternatively, 67 latter 7,732
- Day zero is the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere
Via the assumption that seasons begin at their equinoxes and solstices:
- Northern Hemisphere:
- Spring is from days 1-42
- Summer is from days 43-84
- Fall is from days 85-126
- Winter is from days 127-168
- Southern Hemisphere:
- Fall is from days 1-42
- Winter is from days 43-84
- Spring is from days 85-126
- Summer is from days 127-168
Htaevic Calendar
Each Pavalan tropical year is 168.1563 days. In the era of the first Htaevic empire, it was not known to this precision. However they knew that if they added a leap day every 8 years, and a second leap day on top of that every 32 years, they could keep their calendar roughly in sync (0.156308129 - 1/8 - 1/32 = 0.000058129 days of drift per 32-year cycle). The ancient Htaevics used base-8 however they realized that if they used weeks that were 8-days long there would be 21 weeks in a year, which was not divisible by two. So instead they opted for a 6-day week with 28 such weeks in a year. They divided the year into two halves, Dry and Wet.
| Original Season | Week | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Dry | Week 1 | Eclipse season (peaking); post-spring equinox |
| Week 2 | Eclipse season (weakening) | |
| Week 3 | Eclipse season (ends) | |
| Week 4 | ||
| Week 5 | ||
| Week 6 | ||
| Week 7 | ||
| Week 8 | Post-summer solstice | |
| Week 9 | ||
| Week 10 | ||
| Week 11 | ||
| Week 12 | Eclipse season (starts) | |
| Week 13 | Eclipse season (strengthening) | |
| Week 14 | Eclipse season (peak) | |
| Wet | Week 15 | Eclipse season (peak); post-fall equinox |
| Week 16 | Eclipse season (weakening) | |
| Week 17 | Eclipse season (ends) | |
| Week 18 | ||
| Week 19 | ||
| Week 20 | ||
| Week 21 | ||
| Week 22 | Post-winter solstice | |
| Week 23 | ||
| Week 24 | ||
| Week 25 | ||
| Week 26 | Eclipse season (starts) | |
| Week 27 | Eclipse season (strengthening) | |
| Week 28 | Eclipse season (peaking) |