Carcosan calendar



Based heavily on the calendar originally developed by Kenuqse Giver-of-Letters of The Ashlands, the Carcosan calendar is actually a development of the Oksidan calendar, with year-zero being set on the date of the Oksidan's first departure from Natum.

Formatting
Though varying slightly across different worlds to take account of shifting year lengths, dates in the Carcosan calendar are written left to right and detail day, week, month, year, and "era", with era being relatively synonymous with the Carcosans' (formerly Oksidans') experience of a world. Periods are used to space each number with the exception of the space between "years" and "eras", which is typically held by a capital E. "Day zero" of each year in the Carcosan calendar always falls on Spring equinox, which is then followed by five or six days of New Years' celebrations depending on the need to adjust so that the following year's day zero falls on the following Spring equinox. During New Year's celebration, dates are kept by placing the day of the celebration in parenthesis with the week and month recorded as zero and Carcosans don't consider time to be meaningfully progressing until the year's actual day one following the celebration.

Example dates

 * The fifth day "Zero" of the new year's celebration of the eighth year of the fourth era would be recorded as:
 * (5).0.0.8E4


 * The Summer Solstice of the tenth year of the fourth era would be recorded as:
 * 3.3.4.10E4


 * Fall equinox of the same year would fall on:
 * 2.2.9.10E4


 * The Winter solstice of the following year would land on:
 * 3.4.13.11E4

Eras
* As Carcosans never encountered Spera directly, all dates are recorded as negative, ascending from the final day of Spera.