The Depavatan Calendar

As the three siblings align, so starts a new month. Guarded by the heavenly parents, life will always go on.

— Unknown

The lunar calendar created in Depavata is widely used across the whole southern Regerwa. As a lunar calendar it doesn't follow the solar year perfectly and thus the months move around slowly, making it less useful further north where the seasons are more important.

The Calendar

The year is divided into five months, each starting when the two moons align. The months are named after the God and Goddess, and their three children: the earth and the two moons. Each month is divided into eight weeks of ten days each, followed by a holiday period of three or four days.

Week/Month	Prathi	Surai Kaji	Mocan	Pasa Vadi	Chocan
One	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Two	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Three	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Four	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Five	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Six	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Seven	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Eight	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days	Ten days
Holiday	Three days	Four days	Three days	Four days	Three days

Thus, months Surai Kaji and Pasa Vadi, names after the God and the Goddess, have 84 for days, and the other three have 83 days. The holidays in the end of the months are dedicated to the entity the month is named after, which is why the holidays for Surai Kaji and Pasa Vadi are longer.
All in all the year are 417 days long, a little over 24 days shorter than the solar year, something that is known by know. However, the people in the south stick to their calendar despite this and couldn't care less about what the more northern people think about it.

History

The Depavatan calendar started being used around three hundred years ago in Depavata when the current ruler wanted to create something that was used in the whole country, instead of all the different ways people counted time before that. The official way of counting time had been lunar years of the current ruler's reign, but depending on how far away from the capital it was, time varied.
Together with some priests of the Children of the Light a calendar was created in such a way that the people wouldn't have anything to object to it. And, surprisingly, it really did catch on. It didn't take long until people all over the country was using the calendar, and through trade it soon spread to other parts of the world.
Today, it is by far the most used calendar in Regerwa, especially in the south.

Years

At its creation, it was decided that the year would be counted from the founding of the capital Taranaphul. This was actually the most controversial decision in the making of the calendar as Taranaphul is very old and it is in fact not known when people first started living there. However, the creation of the calendar fixed this year and set it to year 0, meaning it is now the year 1514.