Elder Days
Star Wars
Galactic Standard · a 368-day year
Set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, with no canonical Earth date. The Galactic Standard Calendar runs 368 days — ten 35-day months, three five-day fête weeks and three holidays — and events are dated from the Battle of Yavin, the year zero from which the count runs ABY, After the Battle of Yavin.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read ≈224 ABY · Month 2 · Wk 2 · Dy 3. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — the Galactic Standard Calendar
- Origin
- Star Wars, as its Legends reference works set the calendar out
- Year
- 368 days
- Months
- 10, of 35 days
- Week
- 5 days
- Leap rule
- None — three fête weeks and three holidays fill out the year
- Counts from
- The Battle of Yavin (BBY / ABY)
- Where it’s used
- The galaxy, in the films and books
- How it’s worked out here
- No canon ties it to our calendar; a Legends estimate puts the Battle of Yavin about 176 years before the first film, so year zero is placed at 1801 and its 368-day years run on from there
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