This source says the official Pathfinder calendar uses twelve 30-day months, which would be a 360-day year.
However, this source seems more in line with the real-world calendar, which has 365 days.
Which one is official canon? I ask because I'm creating a downtime calendar for my friends and I to use during our Kingmaker game. We're sticklers for details such as this.
This source says the official Pathfinder calendar uses twelve 30-day months, which would be a 360-day year.
However, this source seems more in line with the real-world calendar, which has 365 days.
Which one is official canon? I ask because I'm creating a downtime calendar for my friends and I to use during our Kingmaker game. We're sticklers for details such as this.
Originally it was the former; as of The Inner Sea World Guide it's the latter. Paizo has gradually adjusted Golarion's solar and lunar cycles over time to make them more closely resemble Earth's. (This because doing otherwise creates headaches for those deep into timekeeping.) The only significant differences these days are that Golarion has a leap year every eight years, not four, and -- here's an obscurity -- the Inner Sea's lunar calendar matches what would be seen over North America rather than over Europe, despite the apparent geographical analogues. :)
I think the eight-year thing is considered a misprint; the calendars are exactly identical.
As I understand it it's not a "misprint" so much as an element of the old calendar that slipped through the cracks and was grandfathered into the new "Earth" calendar. I assume it's being quietly ignored these days. (As a GM who is "deep into timekeeping," I do ignore it myself.)
Thanks guys, so it's 365 days then?