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Wheel of Time
Farede Calendar · ten-day weeks, thirteen months (anchored)
Robert Jordan’s Farede Calendar, devised in-world by an Atha’an Miere scholar and promulgated by a Panarch of Tarabon: thirteen months of twenty-eight days on ten-day weeks. The year opens at the winter solstice, and a single day called Sunday sits at the summer solstice belonging to no month at all.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 1 Nesan. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — the Farede Calendar
- Origin
- Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time
- Year
- 365 days — thirteen months of 28, plus Sunday at midsummer
- Months
- 13, of 28 days
- Week
- 10 days
- Counts from
- The New Era (NE)
- Where it’s used
- The Westlands, in the novels
- How it’s worked out here
- The year opens on our 22 December, anchored by the first book: The Eye of the World was published in 1990 and opens in 998 NE
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