Other Worlds
Roshar — Stormlight
20-hour day, 50-minute hours, 500-day year (anchored)
Sanderson’s Vorin calendar is built on tens: 10 months of 10 weeks of 5 days (500 days a year). A Rosharan day is 20 hours of 50 minutes, so its clock and calendar keep their own pace against ours — a Rosharan year runs out in about 347 of our days, and gains on ours steadily. No canon ties Roshar to our calendar, so the count is anchored so that 1 January 1970 begins 1114, which places 1173 — the year The Way of Kings opens — in 2026.
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In UTC at 01:11 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 1173.8.7.5. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Another world’s calendar, built on tens and fives
- Origin
- Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive
- Year
- 500 days
- Months
- 10, of 50 days
- Week
- 5 days
- Day
- 20 hours of 50 minutes
- Counts from
- The Vorin count of years
- Where it’s used
- The Vorin kingdoms of Roshar, in the novels
- How it’s worked out here
- Anchored so 1 January 1970 begins 1114, which places 1173 — the year The Way of Kings opens — in 2026; a Rosharan day is 1,000 of our minutes, so its year runs ahead of ours
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