I recently learned about the Fantasy Calendar Generator (which may be found at the other end of the Link below) and for some reason, possibly connected to a recent sense of curiosity where creatures from other Planets are concerned (triggered by reading into the beasts known only from Earth's prehistory), I began to wonder what the calendars of The Race might look like.
https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/calendar/
Now quite a bit of this Planet's details were easy enough to work out; the Turtledove wiki provided the salient fact that their Homeworld is situated in the Tau Ceti system and that their year is roughly half as long as that of Earth - with that it mind (and having read the article on Tau Ceti at Wikipedia) it made sense to assume a year 168 Days long as per Tau Ceti e (although the Ssumaz Homeworld is actually the SECOND planet in their solar system the length of local year was too close to that mentioned in my references to be ignored).
I further assumed that, as the Race's day was divided into ten hours (which implies that the Race's Hour was about 151 minutes long by Earthly measure, meaning that while their calendar year is shorter than the Terrestrial their hours are over twice as long as ours), the local year would be divided into 10 months - which means two months would be 16 days long and eight months would last for 17.
For the record I would suggest that the local Months are named for Storied Emperors from the History of The Ssumaz Dynasty (probably the local equivalent of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus); it's not impossible that there may be monthly festivals on the seventeenth days of most months.
Given the brevity of this month compared to the Terrestrial and the fact that the Race apparently like to smooth away rough edges, it is not impossible that the Empire of the Sssumaz Dynasty don't bother with weeks; if they DO then the local week might well be 8 days long (with the "odd day out" during the seventeen-day months being accounted a Holy Festival and therefore not technically part of the Calendar Month).
One hopes that this little ramble has proven reasonably distracting even if it has not proven interesting.
That's All Folks!
https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/calendar/
Now quite a bit of this Planet's details were easy enough to work out; the Turtledove wiki provided the salient fact that their Homeworld is situated in the Tau Ceti system and that their year is roughly half as long as that of Earth - with that it mind (and having read the article on Tau Ceti at Wikipedia) it made sense to assume a year 168 Days long as per Tau Ceti e (although the Ssumaz Homeworld is actually the SECOND planet in their solar system the length of local year was too close to that mentioned in my references to be ignored).
I further assumed that, as the Race's day was divided into ten hours (which implies that the Race's Hour was about 151 minutes long by Earthly measure, meaning that while their calendar year is shorter than the Terrestrial their hours are over twice as long as ours), the local year would be divided into 10 months - which means two months would be 16 days long and eight months would last for 17.
For the record I would suggest that the local Months are named for Storied Emperors from the History of The Ssumaz Dynasty (probably the local equivalent of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus); it's not impossible that there may be monthly festivals on the seventeenth days of most months.
Given the brevity of this month compared to the Terrestrial and the fact that the Race apparently like to smooth away rough edges, it is not impossible that the Empire of the Sssumaz Dynasty don't bother with weeks; if they DO then the local week might well be 8 days long (with the "odd day out" during the seventeen-day months being accounted a Holy Festival and therefore not technically part of the Calendar Month).
One hopes that this little ramble has proven reasonably distracting even if it has not proven interesting.
That's All Folks!
