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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" | 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" | ||
| - | 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 |
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| - | A Mersian week consists of four segments. | + | A Mersian week is eight days long, and consists of four segments. |
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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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