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** Also, their calendar has slightly more days than hours, and probably also uses a different length day. Good luck trying to convert it to our time units!

* Played for laughs in ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'':

'''Kimar:''' It is the middle of Septober. }}

* Downright bizarre in [[Waterworld]], where the Smokers speak of "lunars" of time.

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', Roland's world uses different names for the months.

* On [[Gor]] each city-state has its own calendar, counting Year X of City Administrator Y's reign or some other locally-important event. To standardize, most city-states also count in years C.A. - Contasta Ar, "from the founding of Ar," the largest city-state. Actual book quote:

* In [[Star Trek Department of Temporal Investigations]], alongside multiple human calendars including Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Mayan examples, the chapter headings include dating systems from many Star Trek cultures, including Vulcan, Andorian, Cardassian, Klingon, Deltan, Tandaran and Risian. Most of these alien calendars have been plotted out in full by the author in his annotations. Other [[Star Trek Novel Verse]] books have given dates in mostly consistant Klingon, Vulcan, Romulan and Andorian calendars, but this is probably the first time the entire calendar has been plotted for so many races.

* [[The Witcher|The Witcherworld]] knows at least two calendars, human and elven. The world's actual year length appears to be used by the human calendar, while elven year's length appears to be some two thirds of it. Both share equinoxes and solstices as points of reference.

** The writers of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' made up stardates as they went along without any sort of linear progression or continuity. Early fans who tried to use them to reconcile episodes' production order and air date order tended to end up as inmates at Tantalus Colony. When an interviewer asked James Doohan how stardates worked, Doohan replied (paraphrasing), "Sorry, even Scotty couldn't figure that out."

** Parodied in ''[[Futurama]]'':

'''Zapp:''' April 13... point two. }}

** Averted in ''Enterprise'', which still used the Gregorian calendar.

* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', all the months are [[Egopolis|named after]] Lucius. (Lucember, Lucapril, etc.)

* One [[The Simpsons|Simpsons]] ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode had a flashback to the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month. Lampshaded by the fact that misprinted calendars were mentioned.

* On ''[[Family Guy]]'', NBC invented Catillsday so they could have another ''Dateline''.