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Due to hand waving and possible astronomical engineering years are exactly 360 days in 12 equal months.

So a "ten-day" of which there are three per month is the analogue of "week".

Individual days are not named but rather numbered.

Year: Annual pattern of solar orbit (solstice and equinox). Months: Varies due to existence of two lunar bodies with different orbital periods. Most calendars follow the silver moon. There is a supercyclic pattern measured from when the moons are in conjuction. Day: Position of sun in sky (sundials), broken into six watches. Watch: Broken into four 1-hour periods. Hour: 60 minutes. There is also a sun-sign system noted by the daily progression of the sunrise relative to a series of constellations. Sand glasses of various durations are employed where available, but due to variance in manufacture they are not standardized. Candles of fixed size and reasonable burn-times are used by some to track the passing of the hours, but difficult to tell exact time to any fractions smaller than 1/12th (5 minutes). Mechanical, water-clocks, weighted pendulums and the like are not yet in use, outside of a few cases.

Regional differences in climate make for variance in calendar month names but here's two:

The Saynoh Calander (silver moon) Atre-Graz - Green Grass Spry-ka - Flowering Vass-ka - Warming Tar-Vass - The Warm Tar-Velt - The Dry Nule-ka - Cooling Tu'd So'mer - Second Summer Karlech - Harvest Rakt-ka - Rotting Tar-Nule - The Cold Nulich - Ice Juht-ka - Flooding

Traztinaen - Nae's Year Trejeiuk - Green-Month Pioiuk - Flower-Month Stidiupt - Warming Tatievanei - Long-Days Riaptiuk - Lightning-Month Fraipipt - Cooling Aicekiuk - Bird-Month Alodiuk - Fruit-Month Neitipt - Rotting Prenevanei - Short-Days Siuniuk - Ice-Month Uleliuk - Water-Month