Neptunian Calendar - Revision history

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 The '''Neptunian calendar''' is the calendar used by the [[Neptunian Culture]]. It is oriented around the solar year, and the change in light and darkness in particular. Neptunians tend to be very phototropic, so the difference in light between winter and summer has a large effect, especially on a planet with high axial tilt like [[Halcyon]].
 The Neptunian approach to dates is as relaxed as the rest of their society. Indeed, the divisions of the year seem to mainly serve to schedule things like sun-bathing (tracking day length) and surfing (tracking moon phases for tides).
 == Seasons ==

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	Glowtide, lasting a single moon, just replaces the season, turn, swing, and moon sections, and is notated as 0, making Deep Glowtide of the same year written out as 8334 0 0		Glowtide, lasting a single moon, just replaces the season, turn, swing, and moon sections, and is notated as 0, making Deep Glowtide of the same year written out as 8334 0 0
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-The '''Neptunian calendar''' is the calendar used by the [[Neptunian Culture]]. It is oriented around the solar year, and the change in light and darkness in particular. Neptunians tend to be very phototrophic, so the difference in light between winter and summer has a large effect, especially on a planet with high axial tilt like [[Halcyon]].
+The '''Neptunian calendar''' is the calendar used by the [[Neptunian Culture]]. It is oriented around the solar year, and the change in light and darkness in particular. Neptunians tend to be very phototropic, so the difference in light between winter and summer has a large effect, especially on a planet with high axial tilt like [[Halcyon]].
 The Neptunian approach to dates is as relaxed as the rest of their society. Indeed, the divisions of the year seem to mainly serve to schedule things like sun-bathing (tracking day length) and surfing (tracking moon phases for tides).

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-The '''Neptunian calendar''' is oriented around the solar year, and the change in light and darkness in particular. Given Halcyon’s fairly large axial tilt, the day/night variation is quite high, but since the climate is closely engineered, the seasons show relatively little variation apart from daytime/nighttime scheduling concerns.
+The '''Neptunian calendar''' is the calendar used by the [[Neptunian Culture]]. It is oriented around the solar year, and the change in light and darkness in particular. Neptunians tend to be very phototrophic, so the difference in light between winter and summer has a large effect, especially on a planet with high axial tilt like [[Halcyon]].
 The Neptunian approach to dates is as relaxed as the rest of their society. Indeed, the divisions of the year seem to mainly serve to schedule things like sun-bathing (tracking day length) and surfing (tracking moon phases for tides).

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 Mapping this to the Gregorian Year is quite similar to the Halcyonian year. Again, turns are 45 days long, with one reserved from Full Resting, and the extra time goes into Glowtide. Glowtide thus lasts six days in most years, and 7 days whenever a leap day needs to be added.  The leap day is added the year BEFORE the leap-day in the Gregorian calendar, so that the calendars only misalign for 2 months rather than 10.
-For non-leap years, the Neptunian calendar lines up with the Gregorian one as follows:
+For standard years, the Neptunian calendar lines up with the Gregorian one as follows. In the year immediately preceding a Gregorian leap year, Glowtide lasts one more day, so the resumption of Full Resting and the start of Rise Resting are one day later.
 * Rise Resting starts January 16
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 * Glowtide starts December 21
 * Full Resting resumes December 26
 == Dividing a Turn ==

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 == Dividing a Year ==
-While the Wave of the Year is in most common use on Halcyon, the calendar actually predates its founding as was constructed to be applied to a year of any length, as long as it has seasons. The Neptunian Calendar is adapted to any year length by dividing the year into 8 divisions as evenly as possible, and then setting aside the rest of the time as intercalary days in the middle of Full Resting, centered around the winter solstice itself. This time is set aside as Glowtide, a special set of celebratory days not counted as part of the regular year. To ensure that the intercalary days are perfectly centered int he middle of Full Resting, the middle-day of that turn (what would be the solstice day if the number of days evenly divided into eight) is included in Glowtide, meaning Full Resting technically contains one day less than the other turns.
+While the Wave of the Year is in most common use on Halcyon, the calendar actually predates its founding as was constructed to be applied to a year of any length, as long as it has seasons. The Neptunian Calendar is adapted to any year length by dividing the year into 8 divisions as evenly as possible, and then setting aside the rest of the time as intercalary days in the middle of Full Resting, centered around the winter solstice itself. This time is set aside as [[Glowtide]], a special set of celebratory days not counted as part of the regular year. To ensure that the intercalary days are perfectly centered int he middle of Full Resting, the middle-day of that turn (what would be the solstice day if the number of days evenly divided into eight) is included in Glowtide, meaning Full Resting technically contains one day less than the other turns.
 === Halcyonian Year ===

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 The '''Neptunian calendar''' is oriented around the solar year, and the change in light and darkness in particular. Given Halcyon’s fairly large axial tilt, the day/night variation is quite high, but since the climate is closely engineered, the seasons show relatively little variation apart from daytime/nighttime scheduling concerns.
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 Glowtide, lasting a single moon, just replaces the season, turn, swing, and moon sections, and is notated as 0, making Deep Glowtide of the same year written out as 8334 0 0

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 The '''Neptunian calendar''' is oriented around the solar year, and the change in light and darkness in particular. Given Halcyon’s fairly large axial tilt, the day/night variation is quite high, but since the climate is closely engineered, the seasons show relatively little variation apart from daytime/nighttime scheduling concerns.
 == Seasons ==
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 If someone wanted to say the whole date out loud, it’d be basically read in reverse direction:
-<code>5 Mid Early Deep Resting, 8334</code>
+Mid Early Deep Resting, 8334
 Glowtide, lasting a single moon, just replaces the season, turn, swing, and moon sections, and is notated as 0, making Deep Glowtide of the same year written out as 8334 0 0
-All that being said, however, many Neptunians, being quite laid back, tend to only mark time by turns (for sunbathers) or moons (for surfers).
+All that being said, many Neptunians tend to only concern themselves with the passage of turns (for sunbathers) or moons (for surfers).

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 When these specific days are written down, they’re written down using a numeric/symbolic system. Year, season, and turn are written numerically, and the rest are using symbols of half-circles and circles, denoting the position in the turn, division, and moon.
-<code>
+ Example, for 12/05/2013:
 Example, for 12/05/2013:
+2 1 (0>
 2 1 (0>
+ Year:   8334 NC
-Year:   8334 NC
+ Season: Resting 2
-Season: Resting 2
+ Turn:   Deep    1
-Turn:   Deep    1
+ Swing:  Early   (
-Swing:  Early   (
+ Moon:   Mid     0
-Moon:   Mid     0
+ Day:    5       >
 Early, mid, and late are marked by (, 0, and ), respectively. Days are similar, with 0 marking the middle day of a moon, and < and > added at the beginning and end to fill out the five.