What Year Is This?

[RP.]

Hi, I take it that the present year in game is 320 AG? Or does it only change to 320 when Season 3 begins?

[Nefreet]

Pg 430 of the CRB wrote:

When the Starfinder rules—or most people in the Pact Worlds—refer to an hour, day, or year, they’re usually referring to Pact Standard Time. Under this scheme, a day has 24 hours of 60 minutes each. Through an astronomical anomaly, this happens to match the day-night cycle on both Castrovel and Triaxus, as well as the shift schedule on Absalom Station, hence its adoption. The length of the year—365 days, with 52 weeks in a year—is based on the length of Absalom Station’s orbit around the sun. When people want to refer to a particular planet’s rotation or orbit, they generally use terms like “local day” or “local year.” (Conveniently, this also means that all game rules referencing time use Earth-standard measurements.)

And although I can't find references to the days/months, they would presumably be the same as in Pathfinder (page 9 of the Pathfinder Second Edition CRB describes both the Golarion calendar and the Solar System similarly).

So today's date (Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 CE) would be Oathday, Erastus 2nd, 320 AG.

Side note: I love that the acronym for "Pact Standard Time", PST, is the same as Paizo's HQ's timezone, "Pacific Standard Time" =P

[John Mangrum]

Officially, the Pact Worlds just use Firstday, Seconday, Thirday, etc., for days of the week, but yes, they do still use the Absalom Reckoning calendar for months.