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m (→‎Calendar: Added "third pass" nomenclature.)
 
== Calendar ==
The Rosharan calendar is divided up into ten months, with ten weeks each. Both the months and the weeks are named after the numbers on the [[Ars Arcanum]], and are sometimes combined into abbreviations. Such abbreviations have the full name of the month and two suffixes, for week and day. Each week is five days, so the year in Roshar is 500 days, ultimately defined by the time between two [[Weeping|Weepings]].{{book ref|sa2|46}} Although the Rosharan year is 500 days long, these days are shorter than on Earth and a Rosharan year is equivalent to 1.1 Earth years.{{17s ref|post|89705|Roshar year is 1.1 Earth years|date=25 January 2014}}{{17s ref|post|49011|Length of Roshar days and years|date=12 February 2013}} As an example Chachel means it's the third day of the week.{{book ref|sa1|46}} Interestingly, Kaladin, who gets paid once a week, refers to payday as "third pass"{{book ref|sa1|14}}. Presumably, this means that another way to talk about days of the week is by saying first, second, third, fourth or fifth pass.
 
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