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Originally posted by wytchcroft:
Do we know – are we told in the (few) Serenity books I don’t yet own (or in the RPG) about the calender kept by the Alliance??? Calenders are a vital control mechanism after all… My guess is that (somewhat like time zones) planets would be allowed a degree of calender autonomy BUT within a broad limit (ala GMT) and with Alliance / Core day names, months and festival (e.g. Unification Day)*.
In a fic I threw in what I thought sounded like plausible western updates of the Chinese calender system – thus Kaylee is born under the sign of the Hammer, Mal under the Plough etc (if I remember my dead fic aright).

Does anyone know the calender? Does the kind of system I suggest sound viable???
* indie festivals on Shadow got banned.

there may be threads on this already - apologies if so...

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I don't know if an official Alliance calendar exists, or if anyone's made one. I would guess it would resemble the French Revolutionary calendar, all sensible, idealogical and such with no regard for how people actually lived their lives.

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Originally posted by schooner:

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Originally posted by wytchcroft:
Do we know – are we told in the (few) Serenity books I don’t yet own (or in the RPG) about the calender kept by the Alliance??? Calenders are a vital control mechanism after all… My guess is that (somewhat like time zones) planets would be allowed a degree of calender autonomy BUT within a broad limit (ala GMT) and with Alliance / Core day names, months and festival (e.g. Unification Day)*.
In a fic I threw in what I thought sounded like plausible western updates of the Chinese calender system – thus Kaylee is born under the sign of the Hammer, Mal under the Plough etc (if I remember my dead fic aright).

Does anyone know the calender? Does the kind of system I suggest sound viable???
* indie festivals on Shadow got banned.

there may be threads on this already - apologies if so...

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I think what you said sounds very viable. Where I live, there are decent sized Chinese, Jewish, and Indian communities. In these neighborhoods, one thing you will always find hanging on the walls of shops is a calendar specific to that culture, and usually an "official" calendar right next to it. I imagine that sort of system would be common outside of the Core. The Alliance calendar is used for government functions, interplanetary trade, and taxes. Most everything else is a local calendar specific either to that world or the culture that is predominant on it.

I don't know if an official Alliance calendar exists, or if anyone's made one. I would guess it would resemble the French Revolutionary calendar, all sensible, idealogical and such with no regard for how people actually lived their lives.

I like your take on the Chinese calendar system. I've been giving some thought as to the constellations of the 'verse, myself.

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