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Standard Mersian Calendar
The Standard Mersian Calendar is the annual solar calendar used to track the passage of days in a Mersian 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.
Subdivision
The Standard Calendar is divided into sixteen months, each of which contains four weeks, each of which contains eight days.
Months and Days are named, weeks however are usually unnamed.
Months
There are sixteen months in the Standard Calendar. There are four months in each season.
Winter months:
Tharsi
Mozal
Nilejeh
Pawlrac
Vernal months:
Docecit
Eregis
Gata
Vesar
Summer months:
Ikadi
Lozpux
Obkest
Chukan
Autumn months:
Bea
Famarsa
Hepdoa
Jol
Weeks
A Mersian week consists of four segments.
A "weekend" consisting of two days:
Etsday
Ixday
A "first stretch" consisting of three days:
Roday
Luday
Tulday
A "rest day" consisting of one day:
Durimday
A "second stretch" consisting of two days:
Verday
Yenday
Weekdays as they relate to business operations
Most businesses either close or have reduced staff on weekends and the rest day, whereas the first and second stretches are considered business days, and most businesses will be fully operational on these days.
Some people take a rest day on Tulday instead of Durimday. Some places only close on the established weekend of Etsday and Ixday.
