Constructing Solar Calendars
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ม.ค. 2025
- My system for creating Solar Calendars
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CORRECTIONS:
0:03 Worldbuilding has a 'd' in it. :/
0:30 A second is 1/60 of a min not an hr.
1:00 Summer in Ireland is usually defined as May June July. It may vary based on where you live and how you culturally reckon the seasons.
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Thank you all so much for watching...Edgar out!
I have never been so happy to hear the words "Good morning Interwebs. Let's worldbuild" before.
Aw! Thanks, pal.
we must be in a constructed universe where artifexian actually uploads
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Speaking of calendars, I have this slight obsession where every time i start a new survival world in Minecraft, i devise a calendar system to keep track of time. My longest running system defines a year as nine sets of eight days. I decided to do that because I'm playing the Cubeasim challenge and that way I can divide the calendar up into three months ruled by Roki, three months ruled by Terrae, and three months ruled by Net. I also decided I'd have day of the new moon be something like a Sabbath, where I can't break or place blocks, kill mobs unless in defense, or travel outside of my grove.
Cooooool!
The best type of leap days though are _negative_ leap days, where every few years you get rid of a day, instead of adding one.
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@@commanderfionafakeno5984 idk what's confusing, it's just what you do when your year happens to be 199.8 days long instead of 200.2 -- so you set your year to be 200 days by default, but every 5 years have a year that's only 199 days rather than 201
@reyhanrizky47 I have something similar, but the neat thing is that each month is 41 days (from the "leap year" and intercalandary days adding up perfectly) except during that 4th year. Some cultures celebrate at midnight in the middle of that year.
the gregorian calendar does that except every 400 years
@@rizzwan-42069 Indeed, though it's cooler when you have that as a first rule rather than one of the later rules.
Omg you're back! Yes yes!
I am indeed! :)
i thought the same :O
~Hail the conquering hero!~
I can't see his back... he's facing us, not away.
Tears of joy. Let's make today a holiday :')
Great that you're back! :)
The system with Kalends, Nones, and Ides was not medieval but ancient Roman. (See "the Ides of March" and Caesar.) In medieval times, they usually had switched to 7-day weeks.
literally everyone in the comments is saying, yay he is back. I am too but, nobody comments that he has a better quality video and new intro that I also love
That intro is top notch
true
Oh my have I missed thee, Artifexian.
Missed you too pal. The Artifexian withdrawal symptoms were real!
Artifexian your timing is perfect I was just about to create my calendar for my book series. I hope you do a lunar calendar too.
and if I'm making a calendar for a planet that's being colonize by multiple aliens with different, all with different preservation of time?
Artifexian is your spreadsheet read only, or can we Interact with the stats
I may do as I wish.
It's aliiiiive. Welcome back.
Cheers, buddy! Glad to be back.
I love this! Calendars are really interesting. I've been looking into the old Scandinavian moon calendar which had both leap months and in the local system of weeks inter calendary days.
Great to hear from Artifexian. And I must say that I'm really missing Ireland when I hear your voice :)
Those lovely dulcet Irish tones. :P
There will be a video on the alternative calendars coming up very soon.
Oh hello there!!!!! Please don't go away again!!! :)
I'll try not too.
Artifexian Yea, don't be a Cory Kenshin
Artifexian Having just found you that would be rather saddening.
HE'S BACK
'BOUT TIME! LAZY SO AND SO. :P
1:00 You think May is in Summer? Ireland must have an even odder climate than I thought...
March is summer here.
A (fairly) interesting thing that I feel like you should've talked about: putting in multiple days on a leap year.
I've seen proposals for calendars that have leap weeks, which I find pretty cool
Also, other details which would be good to talk about (but are fine to miss since they're easy to figure out):
You talked about when the days start, but not years! That's fairly important, possibly linked to cultural values, equinoxes/solstices, random, etc
Also, where the years count up from (year 0), potentially at some historically significant moment
Naming of time periods and connecting them to a culture / cultural values (also potentially naming more than just months, maybe naming weeks or even every day)
If people don't want a simple "have a leap year exactly this often", a way to either put in how often you want to skip it (or add another one? double leap day! or week! or whatever), or not skip it, or an explanation of how to get their system's equivalent of "every 4 years, except 100, except 400" from the day and year lengths
And suuper minor and slightly unrelated but how birthdays are handled. Does the culture do them? Do they measure by year? Month? Some other time period? How do they handle birthdays on leap years?
I'm assuming you'll make more videos on similar topics to this, since you usually do series-like things, and you might cover these, but anyway, that's just some suggestions.
I'm early lemme write a poem:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Artifexian's back,
And my sanity is too
Best poem. 12/12. :)
5/7***
Yoav Shati the perfect score.
a decimal fourteen out of fourteen? why? XD
+Sarky Canadian Because Artifexian has 12 fingers and 12 toes. As do I. Don't we all?
I was so excited to see this. I found your channel only a few months back and didn't know if you were ever going to continue this series. And now you're here. Awesome.
I ended up thinking about time a while back when I considered how I'd make a timeline. I ended up realising that I hadn't actually got any calendar for my world, so I went about building one and the timeline got put aside for a while. I've done something similar to this, except my 'special' days are split up around the year. And I have a third division of the clock because they divided everything by twelve.
“4th of may which will always be in summer”
Where I live we still have snow on the ground in May
In ðe souþ pole.
It seems I subbed at a great time like... 2 days ago! I went through all the videos fast, lol. I'm liking the new level of polish and the pacing that this video has. There really are no other channels on TH-cam that I have managed to find that are comparable in any way to this video set. Great work as always. Keep it up man!
Oh, wellcome back! Thats a cool new intro, like the whole video. Take your bell icon for reward :)
I've found a calendar for earth that would be so much better, same length months, same lenght weeks, months always start the same day of the week, and a special place for the leap day. Have been thinking for a long time, if there is a soo statisfying to look and easy solution, why do we use the gregorian. Now I know! Thank you very much AND DON'T DISAPPEAR AGAIN! :)
Agreed! The Gregorian calendar is not the best solution imo. My favourite is the lunisolar calendar.
That seems a reasonable calendar! :)
The calendar I talked about looked like this. The differecne is weeks start with monday, and the new year is not 29, but 1. The leap day could be the second day.
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Joined your channel during the hiatus, so it's great to see you come back.
This gave me a few ideas to flesh out my calendar further. I already had a golden week every 7 years, but I've already decided that other cultures would have different calendars and I'm going to make full use of this information you provided
Hey Artifexian, can we do atmosphere building next?
We're getting close to that point. I'm dreading it tbh...atmospheres are trippy.
Artifexian
Maybe do a collab video so someone can help you out?
If that was a Veritaserum t-shirt I saw at the end then there's someone who could help
@@zavierboyles hahaha thats a veritasium shirt indeed XD
The calendar for my species has 9 months, each with 25 days, so it has 225 days in all. Or so they thought. Turns the rotation is 226 days instead of 225 days, and they found this out after 25 years, when the seasons started a whole month late, and they were like "We need to do something about this." So the most obvious solution is adding an intercalary day to the end of the year every year. JUST KIDDING THEY DECIDED TO ADD A WHOLE 'NOTHER MONTH THAT ONLY EXISTS EVERY 25 YEARS TO MAKE THE CALENDAR LOOK GOOD HAHAHJAHFJSDKHGKjGH (im going insane)
AHHHH! I never thought I would see this day again! Another Artifexian Video!
Welcome back Edgar!
Nice to have you back !
The video is really well made.
omg he's back!
Think so.
how perfect your timing, I had gotten stuck trying to figure out my calendar and day length a few weeks ago, without aid, and now I have a great resource to actually complete it. thanks a million!
DADDY! YOU CAME BACK FROM THE CIGARETTE STORE!
In all seriousness, I'm so glad you've even made ONE new video. You were my inspiration to start my own worldbuilding endeavours, though what I'm doing is much more complex than these demos for video's sake. Very ambitious, but I hope to learn a lot more (especially from you) as I work on it. Can't wait to see what's in store, for both worldbuilding and language construction!
Hang in there, pal. More to come.
Love it.
When I saw this in my subbox i thought:"wait, that animationstyle seems familiar.
I clicked on it, I heard your voice, it took a moment, and then I jumped intp to the air. Heck yeah you're back, I missed these, M Theory was fun and all, but this is my shit, love it, thank you so much.
New video! Hooray!
Huzzah!
My calendar is based on the international fixed calendar with 13 months of 28 days plus one day seperate called novus day that they celebrate as the beginning of a new year. I thought it would be really cool to have a new/full moon on novus day every year but I have no idea how to make the phases work for the rest of the year.
Glad to see you back!!!
Glad to be back. Thanks for sticking around.
4:33 Go with that
Also I've been thinking about _exactly this topic_ but for a lush moon of a gas giant. I've been tying my brain into pretzels trying to figure out what they would call "days" and "nights", or whether they would be in twilight most/all of the time due to the gas giant's albedo; or whether they would have periods of "pure day" and "pure night" and how they would mark that time 🤔
You know what I actually hadn't thought about it. Hmm...there might be a video in this.
Nice! My instinct says that there would be a period of cycles where "full day" and "twilight" alternate as the moon rotates, then as the moon makes a cycle around a planet, a sort of meta-twilight "dusk", followed by a single long, dark night where perhaps only narrow bands of the gas giant illuminate a sky largely devoid of stars as they are blocked by the parent planet, until light gradually returned through a "dawn" twilight period and a new cycle begins.
This, of course, assumes the habitable moon isn't tidally locked, which it might well be, and maybe that's easier? And what would their weather look like? Would they even have seasons? So many questions!
Elliot Grey good point, how would it work exactly. who has a theory?
Just pretend that the gas giant is a large moon and the habitable moon is orbiting the sun, it would still work
Welcome back!
One thing one might do to make time more interesting would be to count day and night hours separately, heck even count them backwards! (a culture favoring daylight might count x-th hour of light in the day and x hours until sunrise during the night).
On the note of clarity, I've found that having units be a multiple of the standard sec/min/hr is usually sufficient. For example, if a race had very stable heartbeat/breathing pattern, they could build upon that:
1 beat~1 second, 10 beats to a breath, 30 breaths in a moment (~ 5 min), 24 moments in a while (~2 hours) with 6 whiles per day and 6 per night, giving us nice 24 hour day total while requiring the reader to remember only 3 numbers - 10, 5 and 2 for conversion while keeping the system somewhat understandable even without them.
Anyway, you have mentioned other types of calendars, will they be getting their own videos? This one has been great, and I'm sure the others will be too!
"4th of May which is summer" afaik summer starts in June
YAY! More worldbuilding with Edgar! Missed you so much :D
Great video! I actually have a calendar worked out myself, but it is pretty Gregorian, so I will have to see what I can do about that after having watched this video. On the flip side, most of my calendar's calculations work around the number 8, like 8 days in the week, 8 year leap years, number of days between the leap year day adds up to 8, etc. and 8 is a big superstitious deal.
make grammar rules for your language that you created!
It's on the list.
Are you going to do any evolution with your language?
Whats a conlang without language evolution?
No, he means measuring sticks.
Daniel Xsim YAAAAASSSSSSSSSS PLEEEEASSSEEEE
Woooo! Artifexian is back. I love calender building. There are so many interesting things you can do with them. I designed a lunisolar calender recently where there is a three year cycle to the lunar cycles, which is incorporated into the calendar to make each year have a different character and different superstitions about it. I love what you did with the months here, that's not something I'd encountered before. Great job, man.
Omg you're back!! 10 months is waay too long.
Jeez, it's been that long. I'm sorry.
So glad for you to be back! The podcast is great, but when you were talking calendars over there, I couldn't help but think that it'd be so much better to have a video to refer to, rather than trying to seek through the audio when trying to refer to it later.
Hope the next video doesn't take as long to get posted (presuming time is available).
Hurra, you back!
Yup! Thanks for watching, buddy.
Can somebody explain to me why I can't open the spreadsheet in a tab? And if there's no way to fix it, what do I need to open it?
You're back!
Aha! Hope you enjoy.
I did
Another basis for structuring your year could be day length, as in the time from sunrise to sunset. The summer solstice could be the 1st day of your year while the winter solstice marks the middle of the year and any number of points in between these 2 can be used to create months. You can use this if the guys on your planet don't really care about their moon(s).
Also, it's sooooo nice to have you back and the graphics in this video looked awesome!
welcome back
Thanks, pal. Glad to be back.
Hallelujah thou hast returned!! You were and still are the biggest inspiration fueling my world building crazy, thanks so much for your return!
Yes! You are back!
Aha! :)
First of all, glad you are back. It's been nearly a year without an Artifexian video. Second, thank you for making this video your first one in a while. I've been doing some worldbuilding and wanted to learn how to put a calendar together, but I never found any good guides, until now.
Yeeeees! Finally you're back
Yup!
Yes, you're back!!! So happy to see a new video from you. I have been working on making a calendar for a story of mine so this is right now time. :) Oh, and nice intro.
Cheers!
DOES MY EYES DECIEVE ME? AN ARTIFEXIAN VIDEO? HELL YES!
They do not. It's real. It's happening. The nerves are real on my end. :/
Do not fret. We're happy to have you :) video was even better than usual. Make a patreon! Many fans would like to help out
Artifexian has been unfrozen. I believe this would make it the first successful cryogenic freezing and thawing ever. lol. loved the video and keep up the good work, seriously what you do is amazing. this information is INCREDIBLY in-depth, something most world building stuff lacks.
YAY FINALLY AHHHHH!
Thanks for hanging around, pal. It's been quite a while since the last video.
Artifexian thank you for teaching me sooooo Mitch! :D
Artifexian thank you for teaching me sooooo Mitch! :D
cant believe it took me til i'd seen this video to figure out that a lunar calendar just made much more sense for my own project than a solar one
i have a whole lot to think about now-- so that spreadsheet's gonna come in handy!
(dang tho, missed the heck outta these videos. glad you're back, my dude!!)
OH MY GOD YOU'RE ALIVE!!!! YYYEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!!!
Think so.
Artifexian is back! Totally made my day...
at 3:40 in the morning, but still. :D
boi this channel uploaded yes!
I'm back.
This just made my day so much better! It's good to have you back Edgar!
Please do one about constructing Lunisolar calendars. The best calendar, in my opinion.
Yup! Can confirm that will be coming up. I have the script written. And yes, they are the best calendar hands down.
:D
He's back! Hey Artifexian! Just want to say thanks for creating your videos, I actually managed to successfully make my own Conlang (all that's left is Grammar and a Dictionary of Words) thanks to you, good to see that your finally back!
OH MY GOD HE'S BACK OH MY GOD HE'S BACK
He is indeed.
We were waiting for this.
Welcome back on this channel!
Welcome back!
Cheers, pal.
Artifexian So quick question: I understand that world building tends to involve creating entire worlds from scratch, but is it possible to use the techniques of world building to figure out how plausible other fictional worlds are, and if they are, expand to show how it is plausible?
I've been waiting for this for so long and I'm so happy that this day finally came and I love how nice it looks!
I really like the new style but I don't that transition you used at 2:58
I can see that. I'm very much an after effects noob and I'm still finding my way with this style. It'll get more refined over time....hopefully.
So pleased that you are back! I have greatly missed these videos and I am happy that there will be more!
Oh my god!! A new video
It happened.
Welcome back!! Thank you so much for returning!!
No probs. Thanks for watching.
Finally!!!
:)
in fact, I found this channel right after you upload last video I think
HE HAS RETURNED! Glad you're back, your videos are great for helping me build fluff in my story ideas as well as making them a bit more realistic.
He's back. Your move atheists.
what?
I'm SOOOO HAPPY that you're back! I've never done any world building before, but I've always enjoyed your content nonetheless. Gonna be world building soon to make a world for my D&D campaign, and your videos will be a fantastic resource!
yesss
Yus!
Artifexian, so are you comming back to youtube?, and if you are can you tell us why?
This is amazing. Also nice how you tied this into the last 2 podcasts topics.
I think this is how it's gonna work in the future. The podcast will be a place to beta test some ideas and the good ones will become videos.
i never clicked on a vid so fast in my life!! 😆😜😍
:) Thanks, pal.
I found your channel the week you start reposting, I feel pretty fortunate
Damn! Fancy videos!
Thanks man. Still struggling to understand this after effects thing.
I could talk all about your video, but any thoughts I have on the topic itself are grossly overshadowed by a single thought: HE'S BACK!!! :-) Good to see you again, don't be gone so long this time, please! :-)
YES DADDY
Hehe
I've missed your vids so much and perfect timing as i am actually working on a conlang and alternate solar system with my friend so you being back will be a life saver!
I cant believe my eyes
It's been awhile.
Happy to see you back, hope this bodes well for more to come X3
I never gave up on you artie
I like Artie as a moniker. I am Mr.Artie the creator of worlds and occasional videos.
Mr. Artie The Worldbuilding Artisan of Artifexian
Beautiful is an understatement.
thankyou
You're welcome, buddy.
This was incredibly helpful! I'm currently working on my world's calendar and I had the idea of making that 'special week' for myself. It's awesome to find out that isn't as foolish an idea as I thought it was. And your research is really excellent, man.
what just happend
Calendars just happened, my friend. Calendars! :)
Artifexian yea i know and i also meant the fact that this video is here
This might be my favourite block of Artifexian: timekeeping can be so fascinating, especially the further you stray from the Gregorian calendar and 24-hour clock.
"I'm not dead"
Nope! Nor am I
Glad to see you back! I was excited to see the notification that there was a new video! :D
I was genuinely worried that youtube wouldn't serve the video to anyone. I pretty sure I'm in the algorithms bad books at the mo :/
Xidnaf reference spotted
Conkong what where?!?
All I saw was a Beatles reference (Eight Days A Week)
Great to hear from you again! Can't wait to hear about your new ideas for Oa!
::frantically starts scripting:: :P
Hahaha, no worries. I can wait a little longer :D
WAT
Yup
I've been thinking about you recently! What a nice surprise to us that you're getting back into the swing of these videos! I certainly do enjoy seeing a new Artifexian video.
Love you! I missed you. Marry me!!!!! (joke, no homo).
Love you too pal. :)
Love you (no hetero)
Omg, the quality of this is so much better than previous videos. If I have to wait another 9 months for this quality then its worth it.
Oh! Welcome back! I've been waiting for months to get any sign of life from you, any video would be good, and here you are posting a video on astronomy, the subject I love the most! Keep being gr8, m8 :D
You're back! I discovered your channel right after you froze it and have been feverishly binge-listening to your podcast, awaiting your return. I'm glad you're back! Podcasts are great but sometimes a little bite-sized video is easier.
i cant get the spread sheet to work. it downloads as an .xls file
OH MY GOSH YOU'RE BACK WITH WORLDBUILDING! Eeeeee
I love these videos, I hope to see more!