====== Dantrian calendar ======

**Dantrian calendar** is the most used calendar on the [[Continent]]. It was established over a thousand years ago by the [[Western Dantrian Civilization]].

Based on the idea of the spiral of history, the calendar establishes "revolutions" of the spiral to be 2000 years long. The current revolution is third. Recorded history, thus, begins over 4000 years ago.

Dates span from 1-2000 and are written down as 863 FR, which would stand for "first revolution". Centuries are abbreviated as "CFR", "CSR", etc. So, the current century is 11th CTR, which stands for "11th century of the third revolution". It can also be written as "11th century TR". In a sentence, revolutions and their ordinal numbers are typically not capitalized.

While in English such a system would pose a problem, since many ordinal numbers start with the same letters (first, fourth, fifth, etc.), the calendar's numerals are in [[Mandae]], which uses separate letters for each of the ordinal numbers up to ten. Thus, the dantrian calendar might run into problems only after the tenth revolution.

An alternative calendar which counts absolute years, as opposed to periods of 2000 years, had been in use in the east up until [[continent#war|War]].