Months of the Year

A Peaceatian citizen, Jan, was excavating a quarry out of boredom. They received help from their eager friend, happy to unconditionally help them.

One day after a rare moment of rainfall, the rough patch the two of them had dug out was starting to turn to mud. "Jan, your quarry!" yelled the friend. But it was too late, as the falling rain had in their eyes already ruined the quarry beyond repair. Jan's livelihood, his dream, had been ruined by rainfall. But then, he had an idea.

"Say that again," Jan asked, wanting to make sure he's hearing the friend correctly. "Jan, your quarry?" the friend repeated. "That's... catchy. It sticks." Jan stood there for a moment, letting the words sink in. "We should use that for the name of a unit of time, more specifically a period of 30 night and day cycles."

They took the idea to the umbrellataste, thinking he would be the most fit to coin concepts. "Cool idea, maybe we could flesh this out over a couple of drinks?" The two swiftly shook their heads and left umbrellataste to figure this out for himself.

umbrellataste took the sentence and turned it into 'Januquary,' going with Jan's idea for 30 night and day cycles. Later, the monthly Aristocrat meetings rolled around. Interrupting the monotony of the meetings, umbrellataste quipped, "We should name periods of time, starting with 30 night and day cycles. I've already taken the liberty of naming that Januquary, but 1 seems like too little. Let's add some 11 more, some with an alternating amount of night and day cycles, and call it a day and night cycle."

After an entire night of brainstorming, the Aristocracy came up with the following measurements of time: Januquary, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. After December, it would rotate back to Januquary.

'Night and day cycles' were shortened to 'days,' and January, March, May, July, August, October, and December were given 31 days, whilst April, June, September, and November were given 30 days, with February being given 28 days for funsies. Januquary and so on were given the name 'month,' and a full rotation of all 12 months was called a year.

The following day, umbrellataste, still not content with the system, added onto this by splitting the periods further into weeks, hours, and seconds. He also introduced a numbered year system, starting from the year 30. (since he figured that Peaceat had already existed for roughly 30 years as coining the system as the first generation of Peaceat started to mature)