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"Born some nineteen years ago by the Galactic Standard Calendar, parents unknown."
?Grand Moff Birra Seah, in her report on Rebel agent Luke Skywalker[src]
The Galactic Standard Calendar was the standard measurement of time in the galaxy.
It was based on the Coruscant solar cycle.[source?] The Coruscant solar cycle was
368 days long with a day consisting of 24 standard hours.[1] Numerous epochs were
used to determine calendar eras. The most recent of these calendar eras used the
Battle of Yavin as its epoch, or "year zero." BBY stands for Before the Battle of
Yavin, and ABY stands for After the Battle of Yavin.[2]

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HistoryEdit
The calendar, also referred to as the Coruscant Standard Calendar[source?], was the
main calendar in use in the galaxy since the time of the Galactic Republic.
Presumably the Old Republic dated years from its founding in 25,053 BBY.[source?]
Over time, however, historians have used numerous galaxy-changing events as epochs
to mark new calendar eras.[3]

One particularly notable epoch is the Treaty of Coruscant of 3653 BBY. The calendar
eras before and after this event (referred to as "BTC" and "ATC", respectively)
were popularized by the famous Jedi historian Gnost-Dural. His holographic records,
which used this numbering system, contained some of the most complete records of
numerous important events such as the Hundred-Year Darkness, the Great Hyperspace
War, the Great Sith War, the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Civil War, and the Great
Galactic War against the returned Sith Empire. For this reason, this method of
numbering years remains important to historians.[4]
Other notable epochs used were the Ruusan Reformation of 1000 BBY, the Great
ReSynchronization of 35 BBY, the formation of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, and
the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY.[source?] With the exception of the Ruusan
Reformation, the later epochs were all within the same century and stemmed from the
events and upheavals surrounding the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire. They
were short-lived and used by various historians at the time. In 25 ABY, the New
Republic commissioned the New Republic Historical Council to re-standardize the
Galactic Calendar.[source?] The historical council chose the Battle of Yavin,
instead of the Battle of Endor, calling the former the more significant galactic
event. From that point on, the year in which the Battle of Yavin occurred was the
epoch used for the dating system.[2] It was used by the New Republic, as well as
the subsequent Galactic Alliance. Many regions, however, kept their own calendars,
including the Imperial Remnant.[source?]
Time measurementEdit
The calendar was based on the size and rotation of the planet Coruscant. It was a
luno-solar calendar based both on Coruscant's orbit around its sun, and the orbit
of its primary satellite, Centax-1. The standard unit of time was the standard
second. Sixty standard seconds made up each standard minute, and sixty minutes made
up each standard hour. Each day consisted of 24 standard hours. A standard week was
5 standard days, and each month was seven weeks (making 35 standard days each
month). A standard year was 368 days, composed of ten months, three fete weeks, and
three holidays. As the Hyperdrive Theory allowed space travelers to bypass
relativity, a single duration of time passed at all locations equally over a given
interval.[source?]

60 seconds = 1 minute[5]
60 minutes = 1 hour[5]
24 hours = 1 day[5]
5 days = 1 week[5]
7 weeks = 35 days = 1 month[5]
10 months + 3 festival weeks + 3 holidays = 368 days = 1 year[5]
During the Old Republic, at least twenty variants of the Galactic Standard Calendar
were in use, with the Republic Measures & Standards Bureau hotly debating which to
use. One subset of the calendar, known as the 10-month standard calendar, was used
by the Republic Judiciary during the time right before the Clone Wars. Another,
composed of 11 months, was utilized by the archivists, and yet another, being
hexadecimal based, was utilized by infrastructure. In 23 BBY, the Republic Measures
& Standards Bureau debated whether to keep this calendar as one of the twenty or so
official calendars of the Republic, with Keelen Ma commenting that the various
researchers were getting tired of needing calendar converters on their pads.[3]

Days of the weekEdit

Primeday[6]
Centaxday[6]
Taungsday[6]
Zhellday[6]
Benduday[6]
Some locales had other names for days of the week, including Thursday[7] and
Saturday.[8]

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BBY/ABY is sometimes known as BSW4/ASW4, which means "before/after Star Wars:
Episode IV". The BSW4/ASW4 notation was used in the timeline of the second edition
of A Guide to the Star Wars Universe and The Essential Guide to Vehicles and
Vessels. The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons eschewed acronyms altogether and
listed dates as YEARS, with 0 YEARS being the events depicted in Episode IV. The
first Essential Guide to use the BBY/ABY notation was The Essential Chronology.
This practice continued in The Essential Guide to Alien Species and beyond.

Material promoting The Thrawn Trilogy and other contemporary works dated those
works by specifying how much time had passed since the Battle of Endor. This
practice began to change after the release of The Truce at Bakura.
In 2005 and 2006, Karen Traviss stated that she used the 10-month calendar when
writing her Republic Commando novels.[9][10]
The Essential Atlas featured years of 12 months and months of 30 or 31 days, as did
The New Essential Chronology.
Star Wars 7: New Planets, New Perils! mentioned Sunday school, but gave no
indication it was named for a day of the week.
12-month/368-day year structureEdit
The number of days in every month has yet to be revealed.

Month 2 has at least 29 days.[11]

Month 5 has 31 days.[12]
Month 7 has 31 days.[13]
Month 10 has 31 days.[14]
AppearancesEdit
Star Wars 10 (First identified as Galactic Standard Calendar)
SourcesEdit
SWInsider "Star Wars Publications Timeline"Star Wars Insider 23
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (First
appearance)
Lords of the Expanse[source?]
Player's Guide to Tapani[source?]
HNNsmall RM&S; Debates Calendar ReformHoloNet News Vol. 531 45 (content now
obsolete; backup link on Archive.org) (Indirect mention only)
The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I ("A Timeline of Galactic Events")
(Indirect mention only)
Dining at Dex's (Indirect mention only)
StarWarsDotComBlogsLogoStacked "Don't Read This!!!!!!" Eeusu Estornii, Sue
Rostoni's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
StarWarsDotComBlogsLogoStacked "Legacy of the Force: Tempest" Eeusu Estornii, Sue
Rostoni's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
Star Wars: Sith Wars
Notes and referencesEdit
? WizardsoftheCoast "Coruscant: Center of the Empire" on Wizards.com (original
article link, backup link)
? 2.0 2.1 The New Essential Chronology
? 3.0 3.1 HNNsmall RM&S; Debates Calendar ReformHoloNet News Vol. 531 45 (content
now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
? Timeline 1: Treaty of Coruscant
? 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised
and Expanded
? 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Dining at Dex's
? The Last of the Jedi: Master of Deception (page 106)
? SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
? http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=222689&start=1230
? http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=222689&start=1365
? Star Wars Insider 74 - CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 15:2:29 Edition
? StarWarsDotComBlogsLogoStacked "Legacy of the Force: Tempest" Eeusu Estornii,
Sue Rostoni's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
? The Essential Atlas (page 200)
? The Essential Atlas (page 198)
See alsoEdit
Tapani calendar
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