Amertod-Kenning

Amertod-kenning is the most widely used dating method in the Abar-Neridic peninsula, which uses the destruction of Amertod as the year 0. BA means ‘before Amertod’ and AA means ‘after Amertod’.

Acceptance
Amertod-Kenning is accepted throughout most of the Abar-Neridic peninsula, however there are some places that still reject it as their official dating system, like the inhabitants of Crauyod or the Vik-yen of Iìsgaròth. It is still safe to say that in all places that use some sort of system do devise a date, Amertod-Kenning is at least acknowledged.

Format
The Amertod-Kenning calendar is based around a Gregorian calendar, with seven months of 31 days, four months of 30 days, and one month of 23 days. The Amertod-kenning calendar has 360 days every year. There are no leap years in the Amertod-Kenning calendar, and instead an extra three seconds are added onto the sunset of each day, except on the last day of each month, where four and a half seconds are added. This makes the creation of mechanical clocks very difficult and the maintenance very expensive. Therefore the vast majority of people in the Abar-Neridic peninsula do not feel the need for a clock, as they wake up at sunrise, go to sleep when they are tired, and have mealtimes when everyone in the household is hungry.

Controversy
As the calendar is extremely inconvenient and requires adeptness in mathematics, many other calendars have been proposed and are widely acknowledged. The Gregorian calendar, for example, is much more simple to use, but goes against the Western Human tradition of rejecting the number 65 because the word in Karod (Ecklich Nit) sounds like the word for “extreme discomfort” (Exlich Init).