Timeline

Tolamain keeps their calendar based on the leader, ex: In the first year of the reign of the the Paranoid Old Goat, which was also the twenty-fifth year of the reign of the Old Goat's Father...

The year begins at sunrise on the day after the winter solstice. They use a primarily solar calendar with twelve months of thirty days (beginning on the day after the winter solstice), sub-divided into five weeks of six days. After 360 days, the remaining time until the winter solstice is considered a public holiday during which no business can be done - usually five days, though they throw in a sixth every so often when it seems reasonable. Anyone who is born or dies in the first half of the holiday is officially considered to have been born/died on the last day of the year. Anyone born/dying in the latter half of the holiday has officially been born/died on the first day of the next year.

The Wavewalker Temple keeps a calendar based on the foundation of the Temple as an actual institution, ex: Temple Year (TY) 876

The year begins at midnight of the night of the first full moon after the winter solstice. They use a primarily lunar calendar with thirteen months of twenty-eight days with the beginning of the year shifting slightly each year based on the date of the first full moon after the winter solstice. There are occasionally months where it is ambiguous which night the moon is fullest, so there is usually one month with two "first" days per year. This only ever matters to the Temple, because they're really the only people keeping records on the islands, therefore, their chief astronomer just sends an announcement around every so often when it turns out there were two "firsts" this month, please adjust the dates on your records accordingly. There is no week concept. A half-month is the closest equivalent.

Before they started getting organised under Erik's leadership, the hill people tended to just divide the year into four based on the solstices and equinoxes. Specific dates are referred to as "the eighth day after the early harvest moon (second full moon after the summer solstice)" on the rare occasion that anyone has any reason to be talking about specific dates. Years are counted based on major astronomical events, such as a comet appearing or an eclipse (ex: year of the solar eclipse; eclipse 1; eclipse 2), and recently the founding of the Freehold.

The Freehold itself uses the Temple Year, but with Tolamainian style months - they're 28 days long, and the full moon is always the first of the first month. If there is any ambiguity, the first is the twenty-ninth day after the last first day of a month. This generally leaves one (or sometimes two) days between the last day of the last month, and the first day of the first month of the next year. These days have their own names as though they are very short "months", one of which only occurs about every four years.

Every one of these people thinks their solution to the problem is the most obvious and reasonable solution, obviously.

Solar and lunar cycles are almost earth-standard (365.25 and 28 days). Days are the same length, but I may end up changing the number of hours recognised just for fun.

TY 697 = APG 25/OGF 1 = Full Lunar Eclipse 2

TY 698 = OGF 2 = Eclipse 3

TY 699 = OGF 3 = Eclipse 4

TY 700 = OGF 4 = Eclipse 5

TY 701 = OGF 5 = Eclipse 6

TY 702 = OGF 6 = Eclipse 7

TY 703 = OGF 7 = Eclipse 8

TY 704 = OGF 8 = Eclipse 9

TY 705 = OGF 9 = Eclipse 10

TY 706 = OGF 10 = Eclipse 11

TY 707 = OGF 11 = Eclipse 12

TY 708 = OGF 12 = Eclipse 13

TY 709 = OGF 13 = Eclipse 14

TY 710 = OGF 14 = Eclipse 15

TY 711 = OGF 15 = Eclipse 16

TY 712 = OGF 16/POG 1 = White Comet 0

TY 713 = POG 2 = White Comet 1

TY 714 = POG 3 = White Comet 2

TY 715 = POG 4 = White Comet 3

TY 716 = POG 5 = White Comet 4

TY 717 = POG 6 = White Comet 5

TY 718 = POG 7 = White Comet 6

TY 719 = POG 8 = White Comet 7

TY 720 = POG 9 = Partial Solar Eclipse 0

TY 721 = POG 10 = Eclipse 2

TY 722 = POG 11 = Eclipse 3

TY 723 = POG 12 = Eclipse 4

TY 724 = POG 13 = Eclipse 5

TY 725 = POG 14 = Eclipse 6

TY 726 = POG 15 = Eclipse 7

TY 727 = POG 16 = Eclipse 8

TY 728 = POG 17 = Eclipse 9

TY 729 = POG 18 = Red Comet 0

TY 730 = POG 19 = Red Comet 1

TY 731 = POG 20 = Red Comet 2

TY 732 = POG 21 = Red Comet 3

TY 733 = POG 22 = Red Comet 4

TY 734 = POG 23 = Red Comet 5

TY 735 = POG 24 = Red Comet 6

TY 736 = POG 25 = Red Comet 7

TY 737 = POG 26 = Red Comet 8

TY 738 = POG 27 = Red Comet 9

TY 739 = POG 28 = Red Comet 10

TY 740 = POG 29 = Red Comet 11

TY 741 = POG 30 = Red Comet 12

TY 742 = POG 31 = Freehold 0

TY 743 = POG 32 = Freehold 1

TY 744 = POG 33 = Freehold 2

TY 745 = POG 34 = Freehold 3

TY 746 = POG 35 = Freehold 4

TY 747 = POG 36 = Freehold 5

TY 748 = POG 37 = Freehold 6