Graemorian Calendar

The Hours of the Day

The Greamorian day is 24 hours long, broken up by the rising and setting sun. Most people break up the day into large slices - dawn, morning, highsun (noon), afternoon, dusk, sunset, evening, midnight, moondark (night's heart), and night's end.

In large cities, temple bells toll to mark the hours, and each hour is a "bell," counting from the hour after midnight or noon and numbering 1-12. Noon and midnight are both referred to as "twelve bells," though some of the temples most concerned with precise time have gone to a twenty-four-bell nomenclature, where noon is twelve bells and midnight is twenty four bells.

The Graemorian Year

A week consists of ten days. The days do have names, but are often referred to by number instead: first-day, second-day, and so on. Most people count using their thumbs as first-day; halflings, however, are famous for using their pinkies to count first-day, and thus the phrase "counting like a halfling" has come to mean someone is being different just to be difficult.

The year is defined by a 360-day year, divided into 12 months of 30 days, or 3 weeks each.