Overview
Common systems
The most systems of timekeeping on
Salan are local. Most commonly the official systems are based on regnal years of the local leaders.
The common people are usually following an unorganised system based on the important events happening. For example, time might be refered to as "it was the year after the great flooding" or "it happened on the winter before the spring when the king visited the town" or "it happened when XX was still a toddler".
From the founding of Silford
The most consistent and easily followable system is the one followed in
Fares (Silford) which counts the years relative to the (traditional) founding of the city. The date of the founding is an approximation based on later tradition. The earliest known mentions to this system of counting are from 200 AFS (=AH), in a monument commemorating the celebrations held for the 200th anniversary of the city.
Unified system
Many local chronologies and calendar systems are in use on Salan. The unified system is a proposed dating system that could be used to facilitate synchronising events that happen on different regions. The unified system dates are given as AH 'after history' or BH 'before history'.
The unified system is related to the Silford count, that counts dates since the traditional founding of
Fares (Silford). The earliest known date recorded in Silford count is 200 AFS (after founding of Silford). The dates earlier that that (including the actual founding of the city) were later approximated based on the tradition. The unified count uses the first recorded history as it's starting point. The year 1 AH is therefore 200 AFS.
The unified count is aimed towards a more objective and accurate way of representing time. While based on the Silford count, it is considered less biased and thus prefered by many historians. The unified count also makes a clear difference between the known historically recorded dates and later approximations. BH are usually approximated dates without written evidence, while dates AH can often be confirmed by contemporaneus texts.
Even though the count since the founding of Silford is also based on local tradition, it is the most consistent and easily comparable system in use on Salan. This count is also in use in many
Faren settlements other than Silford, in a ddition to the local counts, for example
Republic of Free West Island.
From the founding of the Republic
The
Republic of Free West Island was founded on 494AH and the Republic has been replacing the common counting system to count from that, instead of the more widely used AFS/AH systems
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