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 A year on Mersia is 512.153 days. Usually, the Calendar will consist of 512 days, but once every seven years, a "Spare Day" is added to make up for calendar drift, and years which have a "Spare Day" added are known as "Spare Years". Because the fraction of a day is not exactly one seventh, once every fourteen "Spare Years" approximately once per century, "Spare Day" is skipped in order to re-align the calendar with the true solar year. In spare years, the extra day is the first day of the year, which is not formally part of any month or week. It is, in most cultures, treated as simply an extra day to celebrate the new year. A year on Mersia is 512.153 days. Usually, the Calendar will consist of 512 days, but once every seven years, a "Spare Day" is added to make up for calendar drift, and years which have a "Spare Day" added are known as "Spare Years". Because the fraction of a day is not exactly one seventh, once every fourteen "Spare Years" approximately once per century, "Spare Day" is skipped in order to re-align the calendar with the true solar year. In spare years, the extra day is the first day of the year, which is not formally part of any month or week. It is, in most cultures, treated as simply an extra day to celebrate the new year.
  
-The standard calendar is positioned such that the winter solstice falls on the first day of the new year.+The standard calendar is positioned such that the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere falls on the first day of the new year. Spare day will fall on the solstice in spare years.
  
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 =====Calendars In the Home===== =====Calendars In the Home=====
  
-Because the week is perfectly evenly divisible by the number of days, and spare days are never assigned a weekday, a home will usually use the same calendar for years or even decades, changing only the year.+Because the week is perfectly evenly divisible by the number of days, and spare days are never assigned a weekday, a home will usually use the same calendar for years or even decades, changing only the year, which some calendars include different interchangeable numerals to facilitate.
  
 Calendars on Mersia are most often ornate wooden plaques with small pegs arranged in sixteen rectangular groupings of four columns of eight rows each. Some calendars are painted with imagery relating to the season each month takes place in, or relating to holidays that take place during that month. Days relating to recognized holidays will usually have the pegs for those days colored differently to set them apart. Calendars on Mersia are most often ornate wooden plaques with small pegs arranged in sixteen rectangular groupings of four columns of eight rows each. Some calendars are painted with imagery relating to the season each month takes place in, or relating to holidays that take place during that month. Days relating to recognized holidays will usually have the pegs for those days colored differently to set them apart.
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