How many days to a month in mongoose traveller?

[comody1990]

Hello i have the rulebook but because of all the information that is contained in it, i cannot find the page that tells me how many days are in a month.

yes i am a silly silly person.

please help?

 

[CosmicGamer]

I guess that is a setting specific item because it's not in the core rules. From the LBB9 library data

Dating Systems: Three major dating systems are in use when
referring to historical events- Terran, Vilani and Imperial. A fourth
system (Zhodani olympiads) is of passing interest.

Would you like detail on any of them?

 

[comody1990]

I am playing solo traveller in the spinward marches.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

The Mongoose Library Data book is the only one I don't have because I have 3 other versions of the book already for other Traveller versions. The Traveller wiki might mention Imperium calendars. I don't think they use months. More like a Julian date.

ADDED:
http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Date_Conversion

 

[alex_greene]

I have seen "tenday" used as a measure of time equivalent to a week. They have months of three tendays. All their months are thirty days long.

 

[Ewan]

I think there was something in one of the MegaTraveller books on months and seasons. When I get home from work I will look it out.

 

[Galadrion]

Personally, I tend to use thirteen twenty-eight-day months in a year, with one extra day for Holiday. Works pretty well, most of the time...

 

[Ewan]

From GDWs MegaTraveller Referee Companion page 44

The Impeial Year - Is divided into 365 individually numbered days. Although common practice recognises weeks of seven days and months of four weeks, they are not usually used in expressing dates. The days in a week are called Wonday, Tuday, Thirday, Fourday, Fiday, Sixday and Senday.

It also details the Aslan, Solomani, Vilani and the Zhodani calendars in detail.

 

[DickTurpin]

It's a bit off topic, but if a thirteen month calendar is being used then ship mortgages need to be recomputed to avoid making 40 additional payments. Odd that the mortgage companies failed to point this out. . .

Step 3 of Mortgages Made Easy on page 138 would instead read "Divide the reduced price by 260. This is the monthly payment."

 

[Galadrion]

Actually, Mr. Turpin, I do use a 520 payment schedule - although I don't use that formula. Payments are a tad too low to be realistic, and it's really not all that difficult to use the fixed-rate mortgage calculation.

 

[DickTurpin]

Actually, Mr. Turpin, I do use a 520 payment schedule - although I don't use that formula. Payments are a tad too low to be realistic, and it's really not all that difficult to use the fixed-rate mortgage calculation.

Excellent. I only mentioned it because it never occurred to me when I was playing. We used a "two jumps per month" cycle and paid the mortgage after the second jump. Since we did not use months as such, it never dawned on me that we were in effect using a 13 month calendar and making an extra payment each year.

On another note "Mr. Turpin" just seems wrong. I am really regretting my choice back when I had to come up with a login name to post a comment. Here in the US no one has ever heard of him and I thought it would be nice to pick an obscure but colorful character from Britain's past since it was a British company's forum. Since then I have come to find that the name is not just an interesting bit of historical trivia like I thought. Others use "DT" when addressing me personally which feels a bit better.

 

[comody1990]

I found the answers on this thread to be both useful and humorous.

Thank you all for the feedback.

 

[CosmicGamer]

The Mongoose Library Data book is the only one I don't have

Got Spinward Marches?

Dating Systems
Many, indeed most, worlds have their own local dating system and
many have more than one. However, the standard Imperial calendar
is in use on most worlds

and

The system uses a seven–day week (named Oneday, Twoday and so forth) and a 365–day year. Dates within the year are given as Day–Year. For example, 054–1105 is the 54th day of the 1105th year since the founding of the Third Imperium.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

The Mongoose Library Data book is the only one I don't have

Got Spinward Marches?

Yes, what about it?

 

[steelbrok]

Personally, I tend to use thirteen twenty-eight-day months in a year, with one extra day for Holiday. Works pretty well, most of the time...

+1

Then you have a month off paying the mortgage while the ship undergoes annual maintenance

 

[CosmicGamer]

The Mongoose Library Data book is the only one I don't have

Got Spinward Marches?

Yes, what about it?

The two quotes from my previous post came from that publication.