The Abiding Calendar

Nearly 1700 years ago, a group of The Veil's top scholars came together under guidance from The Clocksmith to create a permanent calendar system for the world. Calendars and timekeeping systems had existed prior to this, however these were inconsistent with each other and often overly convoluted - especially during times of Ebb and Flow. The result of this assembly was the Abiding Calendar and it was agreed this new system would begin at the next Flow, starting with 1-1-1w (see below). This calendar system is still in use across the world to this day.

Units of Measurement

Days

One Day in the Veil consists of 24 hours of time. Ten days make up one Week or "Tenday" as they are more commonly known. Days of the week are named simply by their numeric placement within the Tenday - Firstday, Secondday, Thirdday etc.

Tendays

Each Tenday (or week) is a measurement of time lasting ten days. There is no concept of months in the Veil and progression through a Season is marked simply by the number of Tendays that have passed. Each Season lasts exactly 15 Tendays.

Seasons

A Season lasts 15 Tendays (approximately 150 days). There are two Seasons in the Veil, a Wet Season commencing with the Flow followed by a Dry season commencing with the Ebb. Two seasons (one wet and one dry) make up a Year, although this term is rarely used in this world.
Because this calendar is funadmentally based around a natural law (the weather), strange quirks can occur regarding datekeeping at the end of a Season. Although a Season is always 15 Tendays, the Ebb/Flow doesn’t always land on the 10th day, so the final Tenday of a Season can vary in length. The longest Tenday on record was at the end of the 878th Dry Season and lasted for a total of 53 days before the rains finally fell on the Veil.

Datekeeping in the Veil

The date is written using the three units of measurement above. Since there are two of each numeric date within one year, a final letter is added to clarify the wet or dry season. For example:
8-6-205d was the Eighthday of the 6th Tenday of the 205th Dry Season.
10-15-1037w was (likely) the final day of the 1037th Wet Season. The following date (provided the Ebb fell after 10 days as expected) would be 1-1-1037d. The first date of the following Wet Season would be 1-1-1038w (the beginning of a new "year").
1-15-1690w is the Firstday of the 15th (final) Tenday of the 1690th Wet Season.

Type

Natural