Craitish calendar

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Craitish calendar

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Not to be confused with the Craitish dating system.

Craitland's pagan history has influenced the calendar used throughout the nation for celebrations and unofficial dating. While Craitland uses the Gregorian calendar for all official business and date registration, the Craitish calendar holds a special significance within the Pagan Church and among the population.

The Craitish calendar shows some similarity with the Coptic calendar in its separation of days into months, but was not based on nor influenced by it in its creation. The calendar separates the year into twelve thirty-day months and five "holidays" spaced unevenly throughout; the "holidays" are not considered a part of any months and are referred to purely by their celebrations' names.

The calendar begins with the Craitish New Year, which corresponds to the Gregorian calendar's October 31st, which follows an unusual tradition of the year passing at midday on Craitish New Year. Following this are the two months of November and December, with the celebration of Mid-Winter's Day (Gregorian December 31st) afterwards giving an effective link to the standard new year's observation. The months of January, February and March are followed by March's Day (Gregorian April 1st), which is celebrated among Craits in a similar way to April Fools'. Following April is May's Day (Gregorian May 2nd), which has ties to the Terran spring holiday of May Day. May and June follow, with Mid-Summer's Day (Gregorian July 2nd; the midpoint of its year) marked before a stretch of July, August, September and October before Craitish New Year occurs at the end of the year.

As with the Gregorian calendar, a leap day is added every four years. In the Craitish calendar, this added day is included as a second Mid-Summer's Day, albeit with no distinction made between the two days; in essence, a leap year Mid-Summer's Day lasts for 48 hours. With the additional days for leap years not aligning between the Gregorian and Craitish calendars, the holidays of March's Day (Gregorian March 31st), May's Day (Gregorian May 1st) and Mid-Summer's Day (Gregorian July 1st and 2nd) are celebrated at slightly different times than on non-leap years.

In a basic text format, the Craitish calendar can be depicted as follows, with Gregorian dates in parentheses:
Craitish New Year (October 31st)
November - 30 days (November 1st-30th)
December - 30 days (December 1st-30th)
Mid-Winter's Day (December 31st)
January - 30 days (January 1st-30th)
February - 30 days (January 31st-March 1st)
March - 30 days (March 2nd-31st)
March's Day (April 1st)
April - 30 days (April 2nd-May 1st)
May's Day (May 2nd)
May - 30 days (May 3rd-June 1st)
June - 30 days (June 2nd-July 1st)
Mid-Summer's Day (July 2nd)
July - 30 days (July 3rd-August 1st)
August - 30 days (August 2nd-31st)
September - 30 days (September 1st-30th)
October - 30 days (October 1st-30th)
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Re: Craitish calendar

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The similarity to the Coptic calendar is quite a surprise! I wonder if the Coptic calendar had similarities to the calendar used by the ancient Egyptians?

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