Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from 
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The prompt this week is - Calendars
This one is both a "mechanical" worldbuilding prompt, and also an opportunity to tell a story ! How is the calendar in your setting created ? Is it a solar one, or a lunar one ? If it's a lunar one, what happens if your setting has more than one moon in the sky ? What defines when a new year starts - midwinter, midsummer, some astrological or astronomical mark, or something in the natural world like the first flower of spring ?
How is the calendar in your setting divided - seasons, months, weeks, or something else ? Are there intercalary days like our 29th February on Leap Years to try to correct for minor slippage ? Or do the powers-that-be just allow the slippage to accumulate ? For that matter, who are the powers-that-be - priests, scientists, shamans, or something else ? If it's a sci-fi setting, do individual systems have their own calendars, or is there an Empire or similar which imposes a unified system of date management ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
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