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An eight-day week · the Octeday is real
Terry Pratchett’s flat world turns under an eight-day week (the eighth is Octeday) and marks long spans by Centuries — presently the Century of the Anchovy.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read Wednesday. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — an eight-day week
- Origin
- Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels
- Year
- 800 days on the Disc, with two summers and two winters
- Week
- 8 days — the eighth is Octeday
- Counts from
- Named centuries — the Century of the Fruitbat, then the Anchovy
- Where it’s used
- Ankh-Morpork and the Disc, in the novels
- How it’s worked out here
- The eight-day week counted from 1 January of our year — the Disc’s own year does not line up with ours
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