I've been thinking about dates and times and thought I would share a fact that some folks may not know. In the years that we are portraying, while the calendar year starts on January 1st, the number of the year starts on the 25th of March. If you go to wikipedia's page on the Julian Calendar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J…..n_calendar and scroll to the part of New Year's Day, they try to explain why this is so by talking broadly about all of Europe.
Most of my dealings with this phenomenon are based on English and American grave markings (Protestants switched over to a Jan 1 starting date much later than catholics since it was a pope who said we needed an updated calendar.) But the Wikipedia article indicates that the Holy Roman Empire used the older numbering system until the year 1544.
What this means is that during our time, if someone were to ask us in February, “what year is it?” we would say 1527, even though by modern calendar standards it is 1528. We would not number the year as 1528 until the 26th of March. So if we all decide that we left Reischach in early March, then we technically left at the end of 1527 , and celebrated the new year (though not the new calendar year) while on the road.
If anyone wants to do some more research on dates and calendars, I'd love to know more!
Alena
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