Further Details

The natives know and use the same calendar system. However, there is no universally accepted set of names for the months. Many people just leave the months numbered; some communities may have local names for them. Other than the new year on moon 1 day 1, there is also no universally accepted holy day, civic day, or any other sort of event.

The lunar cycle is standard and is 30 days long; the new moon is on day 1 of a moon, and the full moon on day 16. There is no concept of rotating seasons; in this new world, seasons are locations and the same season lasts year-long on a particular plate.

Old world communities that have not contacted the natives likely do not know the calendar system used here. They may have carried the calendar system from the old world (which will be coincidentally correct in structure), but their date will likely be different from the date used by natives.

Cliffside Point, having numerous scholars, requires a method of timekeeping. It has not yet made contact with the outside world, so its population uses a temporary date system to keep track of time for their own purposes. They use the old world system, but with a different epoch. They count the Calamity as the new year; the years are prefixed by "N" to indicate "new". For example, it is around 6 moons after the Calamity, so it is moon 7 of the year N1.