Pern time

One Pernese year is roughly .88 of an Earth year.

One Pernese day is 26 earth hours though.

This results in a Pernese year lasting for 288.369 Pern days -- or, 288 days, but for the 3rd which is 289.

In 'earth time', that's 312-ish days.

The weeks are 8 day weeks, with rest days as allowed by thread and other such. (A rest day before or after thread fall would be foolish, as there are preparation to be made, and catching up to do.. and likewise, resting on a thread day doesn't' work either as there is still work to be done, clean up and migrations. Thus, they tend to find their way in when there's time for it, generally chosen by the holder or steward.

This does have the 'side effect' of rest days sometimes being forgotten about--in busy times as spring and fall... but generally, things will be "made up for" by having connected rest days in winter, or high summer.

Generally, Holders and lord holders in an area will try to organize a 'mutual rest day' every few months, so that they can have a gather, though smaller gathers are not unheard of.

The 8 day week results in 36 weeks in a year.

36 weeks are broken up into 9 months (4 weeks - 32 days in a month)


 * Martius (contains vernal equinox)
 * Aprilis
 * Maius
 * Iunius
 * Quintilis
 * Sextilis
 * September
 * October
 * November