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LIONINE CALENDAR
Standard of dating and time keeping established by Emperor Sephis I as his new calendar, replacing the lunar one traditionally used by Eiomites, based upon the complicated Eptemian model. More closely resembling the Alithidil solar calendar, Sephis I then had the year divided into quarters, each quarter names after a season, and each of the quarters further divided into three months, arbitrarily designated as Prefaceca, Interrimus, then Terminus. Each of these months is thirty days in length, with another eight days extra at the Winter Solstice (regardless of date) for the Winterval, a time of celebration and feasting, believed equivalent for the birth date of Iescu.
As the solar year is just less than three hundred and sixty-eight days, this means that every six years the Winterval is measured at only seven days.
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