The Calendar

Today

What’s coming

Every festival and holiday the world keeps, with the next dates it falls on. Put them in the calendar you actually use.

How the year works

The world keeps the real year, on Oregon’s clock: Pacific time, daylight saving and all. The seasons are the real ones: winter is December to February, spring March to May, summer June to August, autumn September to November. Each land’s festivals fall on the same dates every year, and the holidays everyone keeps (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day) are kept in every land at once, each land its own way.

Night falls at 9 pm on the world’s clock and lifts at 5 am. Places written for the dark hours read differently in them, and some lands lean hard into it. Down on the southern coast the tide breathes in six-hour turns, out and back twice a day, and the flats and the wreck keep its schedule.