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+This article will discuss the '''Rectified Imperial Calendar''', which serves as the {{wp|civil calendar}} of the [[Kiravian Federacy]]. Nonstandard Coscivian calendars continue to govern the rhythms of community life in many traditional rural areas of Kiravia or remain in use for ritual purposes, but in modern times none rival the prominence of the Rectified Imperial Calendar, to the point that modern Coscivians and [[Occidental]]s alike know it as simply the '''Coscivian calendar'''.
+==Principles==
+The Coscivian calendar is a {{wp|lunisolar}} calendar. Lunar months have been the essential unit of social timekeeping in Coscivian an pre-Coscivian societies since time immemorial. The Coscivian family of calendars is designed first and foremost to calibrate cycles of lunar months to the solar year and its corresponding seasonal changes. This is accomplished by the {{wp|intercalation}} of an extra month to some years according to a slightly refined {{wp|Metonic cycle}}.
+==Months==
+'''Tova-axirasarov''' - (Ænglish: "Women's History Month") - Added to the calendar by [[Partholón Térunbuir|Prime Executive Térunbuir]] at the behest of the [[Party of Kiravian Women]]. However, subsequent refinements of the computational method used to calculate the [[Élív|vernal equinox]] have rendered it mathematically impossible for ''Tova-axirasaro'' to occur.
+==Weeks==
+The week is not itself an integral component of the Coscivian calendar. The standard seven-day week has became firmly established in the Coscivian world with the adoption of [[Christianity]], though a faint echoes of earlier five-day and six-day weekly patterns are evident in the rhythms of rural life and the timing of many recurring events. The names of the days of the week are not standardised, even within indiviual ''sprachräume''. This state of affairs is perpetuated by the fact that in Coscivian-script texts, days of the week are almost always written with translingual {{wp|logograms}} and understood by the reader as corresponding to whichever name is most familiar to them.
+A table showing several common naming schemes for the days of the week in [[Kiravic Coscivian|Kiravic]] alone illustrates this variance:
+==Year numbering==
+The two most common numbering schemes for years of the Coscivian calendar are ''absolute numbering'', which locates a given year within the matrix of cosmic cycles, an ''relative'' or ''linear numbering'', which locates a given year relative to an {{wp|epoch|epochal}} moment in time.
+For many civic purposes, such as the dating of laws, decrees, patents, charters, court documents, [[Household registration in the Kiravian Federacy|civil registers]], etc., {{wp|regnal years}} are used. Currently, regnal years are counted from the installation of the [[Marble Emperor|(Green) Marble Emperor]] in 1752 AD. After winning the [[Kiravian Civil War]], the [[Kirosocialist Party]] began a new era dated from the declaration of the [[Kiravian Union]]. Uptake of the new era was very slow outside of the Party apparatus, and , out of necessity, official documents at all but the highest levels of government continued to be dual-dated until the early 1970s AD. By the time of Kiravian Unification, only the youngest generation born in the Kiravian Union was thoroughly habituated to revolutionary years. It is not uncommon for local authorities in [[South Kirav]] to use [[Marble_Emperor#White_Marble_Emperor|White Marble Emperor]] regnal years as a political statement.
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