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The Cycle and Date Notation
Eldion measures history in 500-day Cycles. Each Cycle contains four equal seasons of 125 days, while individual dates use the form Cycle–Season–Day: a compact notation designed to remain readable across both ancient eras and living memory.
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A 500-day year
One day contains 24 hours. One Cycle contains 500 days and serves the narrative role of a year. Two Cycles therefore equal exactly 1,000 days, allowing both recent events and deep history to be placed on the same scale.
Four equal seasons
Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter each last 125 days. Season numbers are written as 1, 2, 3, and 4. The day counter resets to 001 when a new season begins.
Reading a date
56999-1-124 means Cycle 56,999, Spring, Day 124. The following season begins at 56999-2-001. Months are not required by the present canonical calendar.
English edition verified against the canonical source codex.