Time in The Known World

(Provided quotes are from Brennan Taylor's 1995 publication of The Legend of Yore game).

"Time in the Known World is similar to time in ours; days have twenty-four hours, hours have 60 minutes, and minutes are 60 seconds long. Where the reckoning of time differs is in the year. Years in the Known World have no months, only devotional weeks and seasons. The four seasons are the same, but there are 24 devotional "weeks" rather than 52. Each "week" is named after a god or goddess, and all are fourteen days in length. There are 336 days in the year.

Dates are stated like this: 4th day of Sibel, 7th day of Urdarolk, God-day of Librisia, etc. God-days are the last day in a god's week. New Year is on the winter solstice, when the days pass from growing shorter to longer. The following is a calendar of the year. The solstices and equinoxes all fall on the god-day of their respective weeks."




This is wonderful, but obviously a year with 336 days doesn't exactly match up with our own world. In addition, trying to match the devotional weeks to the solstices and equinoxes in a way that easily transitions from year to year and still keeps time with seasons and dates sounds less than ideal to me.

Given that I'd like to actually use and track this calendar, and I'm not interested in huge translation efforts, I adapted as follows:

Every (Gregorian) month holds within it two devotional weeks. The first Godsweek is the 1-14, and the second is the 15-28.

From the 29th to the end of the month are the the Dark-days, which are celebrated in remembrance of the time before the Gods.

The Calendar of the Gods begins on January 1, in alignment with the Gregorian calendar.

The first Godsweek (read: 14 days) of the year is devoted to Gorthotor, the Storm Lord. The next Godsweek belongs to The Thains, the All-Seeing. From Jan 29th until the end of January are Dark-days. Then the first 14 days of February are the Godsweek of Talaria, the Sword-Maiden, and so forth. The full list of the Godsweeks and the Seasons is as follows:

Spring

Martala (Feb 15-28)
Adrian (Mar 1-14)
Libresia (Mar 15-28)
Badocaia (Apr 1-14)
Lithian (Apr 15-28)
Nitura (May 1-14)


Summer

Aralion (May 15-28)
Nilindros (Jun 1-14)
Tallisia (Jun 15-28)
Melataria (Jul 1-14)
Phortolio (Jul 15-28)
Mirro (Aug 1-14)


Autumn

Sibel (Aug 15-28)
Gratlud (Sep 1-14)
Yigra (Sep 15-28)
Urdarolk (Oct 1-14)
Groulp (Oct 15-28)
Sairma (Nov 1-14)


Winter

Drakt (Nov 15-28)
Renja (Dec 1-14)
Agotara (Dec 15-28)
Gorthotur (Jan 1-14: The New Year Begins!)
The Thains (Jan 15-28)
Telaria (Feb 1-14)