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Discordian
Erisian parody · five 73-day seasons · years YOLD, from 1166 BCE
The tongue-in-cheek calendar of Discordianism (from the 1963 Principia Discordia): five 73-day seasons, five-day weeks, and St. Tib’s Day in place of leap day. Years are counted from 1166 BCE and written YOLD — the Year of Our Lady of Discord — so a YOLD year always runs 1,166 ahead of ours.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 8 The Aftermath, YOLD 3192. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — five seasons of 73 days
- Origin
- The Principia Discordia, 1963, by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley
- Year
- 365 days, plus St. Tib’s Day in leap years
- Months
- Five seasons of 73 days — Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, The Aftermath
- Week
- 5 days — Sweetmorn, Boomtime, Pungenday, Prickle-Prickle, Setting Orange
- Leap rule
- St. Tib’s Day, outside the week, in Gregorian leap years
- Counts from
- 1166 BCE (YOLD, the Year of Our Lady of Discord)
- Where it’s used
- A parody religion’s calendar, kept for fun
- How it’s worked out here
- From the Gregorian date, by the Principia’s rules
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