Hoennese calendar
The Hoennese calendar (Hoennese: 豐緣曆, translit.: Pun-yan yoɂ?) is the official calendar of Hoenn. It is a lunisolar calendar, which tracks both the phases of Terra's moon and the time of its solar year. The only fixed astronomical observances are the winter solstice, which always occurs in a non-intercalary eleventh month, and the second full moon thereafter, which is always the first day of the year.
History
Years are counted after the first Mongol invasion of Hoenn, in 1274 CE; therefore, the era of the calendar, ab Hoenne conditum (AHC), began with 1275 CE, which was 1 AHC.
Months
Months of the Hoennese calendar start on the day of the astronomical new moon, when Sol & Luna are aligned, and solar eclipses can occur. As a result, a month can either be 29 (小月, kodzuɂ?) or 30 (大月, ofodzuɂ?) days long. No month is normally a particular length; the only surefire way to know the length of a month is to look at the calendar for a particular year.
The months are kept in alignment with the solar year by the twelve solar points, obtained by dividing each of the four seasons into three. The first month always contains the second solar point after the winter solstice. Sometimes, a month falls entirely between two solar points, in which case that month is known as an intercalary month (閏月, uyufudzuɂ?), and numbered identically to the previous month. The more common conventions for writing an intercalary month date in shorthand are to put a dot, plus sign, asterisk, or Latin letter B (from the Latin word for the number two, bis), I (short for “intercalary”), or U (short for uyufu) after the month number.
| Ordinal | Hancha | Katakaina | Romanization | Translation |
| 1 | 睦月 |
ムツキ |
Mutsuɂ | Month of Love |
| 2 | 衣更着 |
キヌサラギ |
Kinsaraɂ | Changing Clothes |
| 3 | 彌生 |
ヤヨヒ |
Yayofi | New Life |
| 4 | 卯月 |
ウヅキ |
Udzuɂ | Month of Deutzia Flowers |
| 5 | 早苗月 |
サナヘヅキ |
Sanafedzuɂ | Month of Early Rice Planting |
| 6 | 水無月 |
ミナヅキ |
Minadzuɂ | Month of Water |
| 7 | 文月 |
フミヅキ |
Fundzuɂ | Month of Books |
| 8 | 葉月 |
ハヅキ |
Hadzuɂ | Month of Leaves |
| 9 | 長月 |
ナガツキ |
Nagatsuɂ | Long Month |
| 10 | 神無月 |
カムナヅキ |
Kannadzuɂ | Month of Gods |
| 11 | 霜月 |
シモツキ |
Shimotsuɂ | Month of Frost |
| 12 | 師赱 |
シハス |
Shifasu | Priests Running |
Days
The Hoennese calendar doesn't have weeks like the Norton calendar; instead, months are subdivided into three ten-day periods called sun (旬?):
- The first, from the 1st to the 10th, is called the sansun (上旬?).
- The second, from the 11th to the 20th, is called the jansun (中旬?).
- The last, from the 21st to the end of the month, is called the hasun (下旬?).
The first day of the month is called tsuɂtaɂ (月立?), and the last tsugomoi (晦?). New Year's Eve is known in Hoenn as Ofoɂgomoi (大晦?) or Ofomisoka (大晦日?). The other days of the month are systematically named by using kun (native Yashima) numeral readings.
Less commonly, the sexagenary cycle can be used to indicate dates.
