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* H. Beam Piper's Terro-Human future history (e.g. ''Little Fuzzy'', ''Uller Uprising'') uses Atomic Era dating, starting the year zero A.E. at 2 December 1942 by the C.E. calendar (the date of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction). Characters occasionally speak of Nth Century Pre-Atomic dates to refer to dates before that time.
* [[Austin Tappan Wright]] devised a fictional calendar for ''[[Islandia]]'', which is explained in more detail in Basil Davenport's treatise on Islandian history. When Islandians found out about the Gregorian calendar, they liked the idea, but adapted the month names so they would have the right seasonal connotations for the ''Southern'' hemisphere. Thus, "Octen" and "Noven" are roughly the northern April and May.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]: Most places on the [[Discworld]] use a 800-day calendar with eight-day weeks (the usual seven used in our world, plus Octeday). The year is divided into two half-years of thirteen months each (one month two weeks long, the other twelve four weeks long): Ick, Offle, February, March, April, May, June, Grune, August, Spune, Sektober, Ember, and December. The idea's also played with in ''[[
** Note that it's usually only wizards and astronomers who think of a year as 800 days long. To the average Discworlder, concerned with practicalities like harvests and weather, a Disc "year" lasts for one turn of the seasons, which takes only 400 days.
** Ankh-Morpork itself has restarted its calendar several times in its history, though dates are usually given in Unseen University's Ankh-Morpork Years. At least one of these restarts is a [[Retcon]] to make up for inconsistent dating.
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