The Kalendar

A Fool enters a bar.

''Bartender: "The bar is closed, sir." ''

''Fool: "Oh sorry, I'm not Kalendrian." ''

- Old saying used to intimidate youth into practicing their Kalendrian time-keeping.

The Kalendar is a time-keeping protocol used in the Killer Kingdom, the Dope Domain, and their surrounding regions. It was devised by King Kieran and denotes years as either Before Ancients (BA) - counting down to the end of the Ancient Age - or After Ancients (AA) -counting up from the beginning of the Recent Age - in accordance to the Battle of the Well of the Ancients that brought the Ancient Age to a close.

Overview
The Kalendar presents its years in a six year cycle, fashioning each year's symbol after a Vulpus, an Echiidna, a Chameleonn, a Hedgenhog, a B'ea, and a Crocotyle chronologically. Each year is observed as the four seasons of Sommer, Autoumn, Wintaer, and Spring. Many observe the sub-season Fall between Autoumn and Wintaer and Rise between Spring and Summer.

A year - the time it takes for the seasons to cycle - is divided into twelve months: Januaree, Febuarie, Ma'arch, Avrill, My, Jin, Jileye, Augustus, Septambre, Octubriea, Novombara, and Decimbi.

In keeping with a constant theme of subdivision, months are then divided into roughly four weeks, and weeks into seven days. A Day - the time it takes the Son to pass through the sky West to East - consists of twenty-four hours and hours contain sixty minutes, which in turn have sixty seconds. Each year has fifty-two weeks to its tenure, excepting the year of the B'ea, which numbers only fifty-one.

History
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Well of the Ancients King Kieran saw a need in his fledging kingdom for a streamlined system of timekeeping to help unify his country. Nearing the End of Ancient Days almost every nation had a different system of time-keeping, and individual townships within each nation made their own variations on these systems. As such, when King Kieran introduced the Kalendar in what was to become 1AA it had difficulty garnering widespread usage, but as the Killer Kingdom grew in power and the Dope Domain was founded the system was soon adopted as the standard time-keeping protocol in Allied regions.