Right now on Earth, it's Saturday, April 19, 2025, 11:28:14 Greenwich Mean Time. On the Kēlen planet of Tērjemār, it is:
jaliþa la ē jalōna ī anhōλi 0 ī anūsri 6 ī anūsīñi 4 ī anīlīñi 5 ē anlōni 50 il antielen ñi anrūni 10 ā mamōrīñ āe anlōni 7 il antielen ñi anrūni 13 ā masīste āe anlōni 25 il antielen ñi anrūni 17 ā masēllō il antielen ñi anrūsi 1713 ā malūāne jamōlemae sū-kēie; *
or:
la ē jalōna 0-6-4-5 ē 50 jē mamōrīñ 10 āe 7 jē masīste 13 āe 25 jē masēllō 17 il antielen anrūsi 1713; *
which translates to:
Today is the daytime, anhōλi 0 and anūsri 6 and anūsīñi 4 and anīlīñi 5 on the 40th day after the re-appearance of the 8th moon Mōrīñ, the 7th day after the re-appearance of the 11th moon Sīste, the 21st day after the re-appearance of the 15th moon Sēllō, of the 971st return of the Womb of the Goddess Lūāne to the sky.
or:
It's daytime 0-6-4-5 of the 40th of Mōrīñ 8, the 7th of Sīste 11, the 21st of Sēllō 15 in the year 971.
On Earth, where we would use Hours:Minutes:Seconds, the Kēleñi use jahōλi-jūsri-jūsīñi-jīlīñi. Starting with the smallest measure, a jīlīñ is approximately equivalent to 1.5 Earth seconds. There are 64 jīlīñi in a jūsīñ, making 1 jūsīñ approximately equivalent to a minute and a half. There are 12 jūsīñi in a jūsre, making a jūsre approximately equivalent to twenty minutes, a convenient division of time. There are 8 jūsri in a jahōλa, making those approximately equivalent to two and a half hours. There are 12 jahōλi in a day of approximately 31 hours, which starts at sunrise. Since Tērjemār has little axial tilt, the day is always more or less 6 jahōλi of light and 6 of night.
There are 498.22 jalōni (days) in a jīstū (year), giving four years of 498 days and a leap year of 499 days every fifth year.
Tērjemār has four moons: Lōīñ, Sēllō, Sīste, and Mōrīñ. Lōīñ is new approximately every 16 days; Sēllō approximately every 23 days; Sīste approximately every 32 days; and Mōrīñ is new approximately every 47 days. Since Lōīñ is new so often, it is not used for telling the date, except that each new moon of Lōīñ marks the end of a jālū, the psychological equivalent of a week.
The problem of having a lunar cycle superimposed on a celestial cycle is solved by calling the last "month(s)" of the previous year the first month of the new year, without actually resetting the day count. Thus, one can have the 29th day of the first Mōrīñ on the 2nd day of the year.
* Footnote: Kēlen numbers are in Base 8. All others are in Base 10.
Last modified: June 07, 2019