Sunday, August 30, 2009

Calendar Making

The way I organise my personal diary here explained:

The basic unit of all time is the day
All days are grouped into weeks, the basic component of longer defined periods

The calendar is 18 to 20 months long
The stretch is divided evenly into 18 to 20 fiscal months
The 12 fiscal months in each year are each denoted with a chinese character:
寒、雨、春、清、满、夏、暑、露、秋、霜、雪、冬
The 12 calendar months in each year are each denoted by a letter:
G, Ƕ(also Hw or Q), M, É, T, C, H, L, W, P, S, N
The fiscal month may start on the 11th of its corresponding calendar month and end on the 10th of the following month, depending on the individual.
Expenses are calulated based on fiscal months.

In English, the date is written as: (day)(calendar month glyph)
e.g. today is 30 August, or 30L

In Chinese, the date is written as: (decade)(fiscal month)(day)(day of the week)
Each fiscal month is divided into 3 decades:
1st decade: 11th to 20th of the month
2nd decade: 21st to end of month
3rd decade: 1st to 10th of the (following) month
each phase is denoted by a character (varies according to fiscal month)
day: according to sequence of day in the decade
day of week: follows Japanese system
e.g. 30 August, 盛露十日

The NS stint is organised into seasons, in which specific sets of activities or events come into play.
Seasons are organised as sets of weeks.
A Frame is a more loosely-defined subset of seasons.
A season may be divided into sub-parts (i.e. period A and period B)
Chinese dates can also be expressed alternatively in terms of frame rather than fiscal month.
e.g. 30 August, 蜂雀七日

Each season (or its subdivision) has a separate calendar, drawn in a table such that each week forms a new row.
The weeks are numbered in order: I, II, III...
for sub-parts: AI, AII, AIII; BI, BII...
A frame may also have its own calendar, for which a week 0 may be defined
For everything else, there's still the legend you can follow.

Fast approaching: Recon Season, week AII

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