Zhodani Calendar

The Zhodani calendar measures the passage of time based upon their homeworld.

Description (Specifications)

The basic unit for the Zhodani calendar is the zhdanstial (day): The time it takes for Zhdant to rotate once on its axis. It is equivalent to 1.12587 standard days or 27.02 standard hours.

The Zhodani Chten (year) is 244.44 zhdanstial or 275.2 standard days in length.

Days within a season are individually named, but, for convenience, are also numbered from one to forty. A Zhodani date is expressed as Olympiad.Year Season/Day, with a holiday name replacing season/day if necessary. As an example: the equivalent of the Imperial date 289-1112 is 3471.1 Dranzhrin.

Zhodani Olympiads

Three chten constitute one Thequzdij (olympiad) which is 733 zhdanstial in length, every third olympiad is 734 zhdanstial long.

Zhodani Seasons

The chten is also divided into six Shidr (seasons) which are each 40 zhdanstial long. Four Zhdanzhdanstial (holidays) separate the shidr without being part of any specific shidr. The weather which characterized the seasons is typical of the mid latitude climate of Dleqiats. The terms are now used more in the sense of months than of seasons, although certain weather characterizations remain attached to the words. The six seasons are:

• Atrint (Raining): the season of spring rains and the planting of crops.
• Vrienstial (Heat): The (often stagnant) hot summer season.
• Atchafser (Waning): A period when the hot summer weather breaks and tempers.
• Ataniebl (Harvest): The season to harvest mature crops.
• Atshtiav (Chill): The freezing winter season.
• Atpaipr (Thaw): The melting of winter ice and thawing of frozen ground.

Zhodani Holidays

The inter-seaons holidays have their origins in early Zhodani festivals and farming holidays. They are:

• Dranzhrin (Sunbright): The vernal equinox. Dranshrin is also the new year's day and takes place between Atpaipr and Atrint.
• Viepchaklstial (Moon day): Originally a religious holiday associated with worship of Viepchakl, viepchaklstial is now a festival of wild abandon held between Atrint and Vrienstial.
• Dranzhrinatch (Sunflight): The autumnal equinox. Dranzhrinatch is a melancholy time for the commemoration of the dead. Dranzhrinatch takes place between Atchafser and Ataniebl.
• Kazdievlstial (Thanksgiving): A traditional harvest festival held between Ataniebl and Atshtiavl.
• Thequzastial (Olympiad Day): A special holiday inserted between Atshtiavl and Atpaipr every third year. Elections of consuls are announced on Thequzastial, as are winners of the Psionic Games. Every third olympiad Atlthequziastial (Double olympiad day) is added immediately after Thequzastial; its function is a leap year day to keep the calendar in synchronization, but its extends the Olympiad celebration as well.

History & Background

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See also

Please see the following AAB articles for more information:

• Charted Space Chronology
  • General Chronology
    • Date Conversion
    • Dating Systems
  • Imperial Chronology
    • Imperial Calendar
      • Holiday
      • Holiday Year
  • Aslan Chronology
    • Aslan Calendar
  • Hiver Chronology
    • Hiver Calendar
  • K'kree Chronology
    • K'kree Calendar
  • Zhodani Chronology
    • Zhodani Calendar

References

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• J. Andrew Keith, Marc Miller, John Harshman. Zhodani (Game Designers Workshop, 1985), .
• David L. Pulver. Alien Races 1 (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 38-39.
• Don McKinney. Zhodani (Mongoose Publishing, 2011), 30.