http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Calendar

Same number of months.
Same number of days in a year.
Same number of days in a week.

Is Nirn the same distance from the sun too?

Only the eras are different. I like what they did with each era/age.

Because it makes it easier to think if they use the same time periods as us. If someone said "Come back and see me in a hayward" you would have no idea how long you were supposed to wait now would you?

In Elder Scrolls: Arena every month had 30 days unlike ours...but i think that was done for programming simplicity.

Well... why not use it?

So it isn't confusing?

I spend Sundas morn in temple. (Never heard them use the term church in-game. I could be wrong on that though as I'm also fairly certain I haven't heard everything there is to be said)

What does confuse me is this, and I'm not sure if it's intended this way or maybe just a bug I have encountered, anyway, let's say it's Loredas and the time is 10:30pm, I sleep in the bed and set 24 (always do that, just press RB on xbox a couple times, then press B when it's time to wake up Easier than working out how many hours to sleep), 11:30pm, still Loredas, makes sense, 12:30am, still Loredas? Hmm, okay, 1:30am, 2:30am, 3:30am, still Loredas? This happens all the way til either 7 or 8am, before it will change over to Sundas.

In Tamriel does the day start at 7/8? (Can't remember which it was)

I have a quest that I need to wait until frobble for. When the twilbot is high, at the stroke of fnirfnagle, we can begin.

There is no church in Tamriel. Mostly because in Tamriel the God you worship will physically bestow blessings whenever you pray, unlike the Church variant

But really, it's just semantics. Both serve the same purpose, but "temple" sounds more ancient and exotic

i lol'd SO HARD

IDK because it's just a video game. I gusse instead of days you could have triangles and instead of months you could have funky pants.

None can argue with that!

I find your implication to be personally offensive. I, sir, already possess funky pants.

I think I am glad they stayed with our standard. The frifnagle (sp?) example sews it up for me!

Purely a literary convenience.
We can assume that maybe Tamriel is a parallel Earth, with some similarities, i.e. a similar calendar, similar cultures (Empire=Romans, Bretons=British, Nords=Vikings), similar terrain, But with fantastical extras like cat and lizard people, orcs, magic, dragons, etc.

Bretons are French

our calander is simple to understand, makes sense that another culture would use it aswell

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Because someone has to think this stuff up and it`s not easy figuring out an entire years worth (including possible leap year`s) amount of realistic fantasy days and months without something screwing up.

It`s far easier to interpret our real life calendar because then you know nothing will screw up. In fact, most everything in Skyrim is taken from real life stuff, so technically, the creator didn`t really have to do much except figure out how the races would interact and changing the gods to be a little different.

Of course if Skyrim was a real place with thousands of years of REAL history then it would no doubt have a calendar system quite alien and different to ours.

But skyrim isn`t real.

I did so I removed it - less of the real world religion please.

I know right and why is the sky blue and snow white and grass green and why are there stars and wolves and rabbits and bears and insects and real plants they even have the same kind of weapons as we do wtf did we evolve with them or something

More importantly, why does Skyrim use our english language? Wouldn't it make much more sense if everything was spoken if whatever language was used there? Also, isn't it quite unlikely that they would have developed the exact same senses as ours? Come to think of it, alot of things would probably be different in an alternate universe, allthough it wouldn't make much sense for the player.

I always thought of the Bretons as the french - smaller and they like to cook. Wasn't the Unusual Taste book by a Breton? And they have french sounding names

I believe so

Only some of Breton society is based around the French, the more mountainous areas are more celtic based. 'Madanach' being an example of a non-French Breton name.

The Gregorian division in 12 months and 7 days per week is quite archaic anyhow and has it's origins in the number of planets in the night sky that are visible with the naked eye, plus the moon and the sun. Ancient lunar/lunisolar calendars like the Babylonian calendar adopted this number, probably for religious reasons. (Even though one 7-day week roughly equals a quarter of a lunation, each lunation being roughly 29.5 days, a division into 6-day or 5-day weeks would have worked just as well. So there's more to the 7-day week then it being a division of the lunar cycle.) Even though the Gregorian calendar is a tropical solar calendar the ancient 7-day week stayed as well as the lunar 12 moon cycle and the lunar hollow/full alternation between months, as it did in the Julian calendar. But it was more a cultural thing then a mathematical necessity. All months and weeks really do is divide the days between solar equinoxes into blocks but this could have been done in plenty more ways mathematically. But.. Whatever. Elder Scrolls has a similar length year, with similar months and weeks.
Even though it wouldn't have been that difficult to make up a fantasy calendar that differentiates from that they probably opted not to do so because the calendar as it is is easier to relate to for the player. And I don't realy care enough about it to call it lack of lore depth or whatever.

Semantics: the Elder Scrolls calendar isn't exactly the same. The gregorian calendar uses leap-years, compensating for the fact that each year (1 solar orbit) is actually 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes 12 seconds long. The TES calendar (in Oblivion ans Skyrim that is) doesn't use leap-years and is exactly 365 days long.

And who knows whether it's a lunar, lunisolar, solar or celestial calendar??
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There are actually Bretons in France, they live in Bretagne. Their ancient Breton origins are Celtic. Over the ages they've become more and more Frenchified.

Elder Scrolls Bretons are based on those Bretons.

At least one thing about Nirn isn't like the real world. Eating monarch butterflies won't make you sick there.

Whatever, my point still stands.

No!