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-	==Timekeeping==
-	Timekeeping in Mizahar is simple as well. All years are kept from the date of the Valterrian prior ([[BV]] - Before Valterrian) and after the Valterrian ([[AV]] - After Valterrian). The current year is {{Current year}} AV, in the season of Winter (Day 1 through 92). All threads are required to be noted with the Mizaharian Date so that both players and moderators can keep track of the chronological order of the events in their lives.
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-	Please Timestamp each thread you begin and use those chronological dates to keep track of your characters whereabouts and activities throughout the year.  A typical timestamp looks like this:
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-	'''Season of Summer, Day 24, 514 AV'''
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-	There are four seasons (winter, spring, summer, fall), 91 days (92 in winter), and we're always on the same year game-wise as we are in real life.  So in 2011 AD (real world), we'll be at 511 AV (Mizaharian Time) as of March 1st since the new year begins in Spring.  Mizahar does not keep track of weeks nor days of the week.  Instead, simply place what day it is in what season of what year, and your timekeeping is complete.  Please see [[Timestamping]] for more details.
	==The Breakdown==		==The Breakdown==

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Revision as of 19:23, 6 March 2014

To keep things simple, Mizahar's Calendar runs equivalent with our own real world one. We have four timechanges throughout the year, corresponding with the season changes, and we do not keep track of months. Instead we have 91 days a season, except for winter which has 92 to equal 365 days a year. Because of the harshness of life on Mizahar, keeping track of the months would be fairly difficult. Instead, people simply rely on the Watchtower flares to note the changing of seasons. Those are described more in detail below.

The Breakdown

• Spring - March April May - Green Watchstone
• Summer - June July August - Yellow Watchstone
• Fall - Sept Oct Nov - Red Watchstone
• Winter - Dec Jan Feb - Blue Watchstone

The year change happens on March 1 of Real Life. So March 1st, 2010 would equate to Spring 1 of 510... and The New Year on Mizahar. The Valterrian is often celebrated/mourned on this date as well.

Holidays

Holidays are incredibly cultural and thus there are no uniform Holidays throughout Mizahar... other than the flaring of The Watchtowers. Various regions, however, do regularly celebrate certain events. Almost every culture celebrates The Valterrian as a new year holiday of sadness and victory. People are sad due to the incredible losses the world suffered, but the victory is in the survival and reemergence of culture after the storms were gone.