Dwarves keep time not according to the sun and moon, but the annual rising of the underground streams. Still, a year is 365 days and included leap days now and then for keeping the calendar synchronized with nature.

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Parts of a Day

• A "work: or "rest" (day) is one Arallyn day, the same length as an Earth-day. A work is broken up into 25 jobs.

• A "job" (hour) lasts 57.6 minutes and is broken up into 50 steps

• A "step" (minute) lasts 1.152 minutesand is broken up into 50 strikes (as in a hammerstrike).

• A "strike" (second) lasts 1.3824 seconds

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Parts of a Year​​

• A "cycle" (year) is one Arallyn year, the same length as an Earth-year. A cycle is broken up into 6 stages and one annual year-end festival.

• A "labor" (week) consists of 5 days) - four works and one rest for renewal, family, and devotion. Dwarves normally work 10-job works in two 5-job shifts with a meal and nap between them.

• A "feast" is a holiday anywhere from 1-5 rests in duration.

• A "journey" (month) consists of 5 labors and is 25 works (days) long.

• There are 6 "times" (seasons), each 60 days long and begins with a 3-rest feast of Invocation, then a journey of hope, a 4-rest feast of the fruits of labor, a journey of gratitude, and a 3-rest Benediction for a total of 60 days. There are 6 times, one for each of the 6 principal Divines associated with the four elements, with life, and with eternal Spirit, for a total of 360 days, followed by the 5-rest feast of kin. The stages of each time are named as follows in translation, where the first, third, and 5th are festival days and the second and fourth are each a 25-day fivecycle:

- Stonevoke, Stonehope, Stonegift, Stoneyield, Stonethank

- Firevoke, Firehope, Firegift, Fireyield, Firethank

- Watervoke, Waterhope, Watergift, Wateryield, Waterthank

- Windvoke, Windhope, Windgift, Windyield, Windthank

- Lifevoke, Lifehope, Lifegift, Lifeyield, Lifethank

- Spiritvoke, Spirithope, Spiritgift, Spirityield, Spiirtthank

- The year-end five-restday feast of Kinthank includes:

Day 1 – Forbearthank - festival of the first dwarven father and mother.

Day 2 – Folkthank - festival of the dwarven race.

Day 3 – Clanthank - festival of one's clan.

Dqy 4 – Parentthank - festival of ones parents.

Day 5 – Childthank – festival of children and Last Day of the Dwarven Year​

 

The Calendar

• The year begins  the 21st of October according to the solar calendar used by surface folk, so that the Feast of Waterfruit coincides roughly with the first significant swelling of the subterranean rivers and lakes from meltwater.

• Leap days are special devotional holidays. 

- Every 5 years is the leap day memorial feast Deadthank, added right after the conclusion of the Familythank festival and before the new year.

- Every 25 years is the additional leap day kingdom feast Realmthank, held right after Deadthank and before the new year.

- Every 500 years is the additional leap day feast of history Pastthank, held right after Realmthank, in which the dwarves celebrate the history and achievements of their race, not just their particular kingdom.

- Every 5000 years is the additional leap day feast of a new age Agethank, in which the past age is named and a new age begins in which the counting of years starts over. The 5000-year ages are numbered and are named at the end of the age for significant events or accomplishments during that age.

• The dwarven leap years occur  on a schedule totally different from that of the Gregorian solar calendar, used in a majority of nations in our world, hence, in a Gregorian leap year, the 1st of march will occur a day later than normal, throwing off date correspondence to the dwarven calendar by a day, and this will be rectified only when the next dwarven Deadthank festival is inserted into the dwarven calendar, still, full rectification only happens on a 25th year, when Realmthank is inserted. Since the Gregorian calendar holds 6 leap years every 24 years and the Dwarven calendar holds 6 every 25 years, a discrepancy might persist until the insertion of the next 500-year Pastthank feast and this five-century festival combined with the 5000-year Agethank feast rectifies all discrepancies in a manner equivalent to that of the Gregorian calendar.