Guild Wars 2

Quick, question.

How long is a week in Tyria? Or how is time keeping kept in general?
I know that some fantasy worlds use the standard 10 days week, and few in my encounters have used a 7 day week. And what about months? How are those kept track of? And how long is a standard month? Is there a place where one could find the calander system that is used in Tyria? Thanks!

• Weeks exist, though rarely mentioned but mentioned enough, but a length has never been clarified afaik.
• Months exist, thoigh also rarely mentioned outside of the Canthan calendar, but are unnamed like weeks. Length also unclarified. Exception to both is for the Canthan calendar, which gives 12 months of 30 days, each named.
• Given the kitten attempt to sync the Mouvelian calendar and the Gregorian in terms of length, it is safe to assume a similar length in weeks and months. Would be easier to argue a 6 day week since that falls easily into both 30 day months and 360 day years, but as part of said kitten syncing, the Mouvelian calendar is now 365 days, not 360.

For the last question, although you won’t see much of it in GW2, this is still the calendar system, and it seems to have been adopted by all major races. Things are dated by season, for example: 11 Season of the Scion 1320. (Each season has 90 days; at present it’s unclear if the five days added to match the RL year have been rolled into the seasons or stand separate as their own thing.) Officially, it doesn’t have months, and there isn’t any canon word on weeks either, although both of the terms can very rarely be found in game. The Canthan calendar does have months, of 30 days each, so that’d be my guess as to what block of time the word describes. With weeks your guess is as good as mine, although I’d tend to lean towards 7 days, since that at least has the very shaky support of ANet’s general (although much maligned here) inclination to synch to the real-world calendar.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

For the last question, although you won’t see much of it in GW2, this is still the calendar system, and it seems to have been adopted by all major races. Things are dated by season, for example: 11 Season of the Scion 1320. (Each season has 90 days; at present it’s unclear if the five days added to match the RL year have been rolled into the seasons or stand separate as their own thing.) Officially, it doesn’t have months, and there isn’t any canon word on weeks either, although both of the terms can very rarely be found in game. The Canthan calendar does have months, of 30 days each, so that’d be my guess as to what block of time the word describes. With weeks your guess is as good as mine, although I’d tend to lean towards 7 days, since that at least has the very shaky support of ANet’s general (although much maligned here) inclination to synch to the real-world calendar.

Thats kind of what I was thinking, and kind of makes sense, but at the same time there is a bit of a discrepancy with syncing it to the real world calender.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mouvelian_calendar

For gameplay’s sake, the calendar corresponds to ours.

In a lore sense, the seasons had been officially 90 days long, with Season of the Colossus having five extra days added later to better reflect the sidereal year. This was done much later, after the development of the calendar.

The Mouvelian Calendar was still likely influenced by the Canthan Calendar, which was probably the main calendar in use for the world until the adoption of the Mouvelian Calendar in Elona and in the nations of Tyria.