Fictional calendars

Argive Reckoning, or AR for short, is the calendar used in Magic: The Gathering. It sets year 0 as the year in which both Urza and Mishra were born. It only came into use many years after the time of the Brothers, and was used informally for several thousand years before an attempts was made to clarify historical facts. It is named after New Argive, a country famed for its scholars. The last time the date was mentioned or could be directly derived from the storyline, it was 4306 AR. ...more on Wikipedia about "Argive Reckoning"

The Calendar of Harptos is the Calendar used in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calendar of Harptos"

Dalereckoning - commonly abbreviated to DR - is the primary fictional numbering of years in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dalereckoning"

The Discworld calendar was first defined in a footnote in The Colour of Magic, and has been expanded upon in later novels and the Discworld Almanack (2004). It has numurous oddities, the chief of which is its length. ...more on Wikipedia about "Discworld calendar"

The days are reckoned in weeks of seven days each. The days of the month are: Starday, Sunday, Moonday, Godsday, Waterday, Earthday, and Freeday. Godsday is commonly associated with worship, and Freeday with rest. The remaining days are considered "work days." An interesting feature of the Greyhawk calendar is that the days of the week always occur on the same day every year, a result of the year having a number of days divisible by seven. ...more on Wikipedia about "Greyhawk Calendar"

Middle-earth calendar refers to one of the systems of keeping time in the fictional Middle-earth devised by J. R. R. Tolkien, and described in The Lord of the Rings. Because Middle-earth was intended to be our world in the distant past, the basic structure of the calendar is similar to ours. ...more on Wikipedia about "Middle-earth calendar"

The Shire Calendar was a calendar used in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth by the Hobbits of Shire. It was different from that used by the Men, Dwarves and Elves. Use of this calendar in Middle-earth is referred to as Shire-reckoning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shire Calendar" http://www.shortopedia.com, there's no better way.

Stardate is the dating convention used in the fictional Star Trek universe. It was invented by Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry, as a way to establish the events in the series as taking place far into the future without tying the episodes down to a particular date. Although the events of the Star Trek universe have now been pinned down to particular future dates, stardates are not actually a consistent system. Various attempts have been made to establish stardate systems in other science fiction works, some attempting to be consistent with Star Trek and others just borrowing the name and general flavour. The prequel series, Star Trek: Enterprise does not use stardates, instead using the Gregorian calendar for log entries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stardate"

In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, the Zork calendar is the system for assigning calendar dates to days in the fictional Zork timeline of the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zork calendar"

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