Great ReSynchronization calendar

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"The current debate stems over which zero-point year-notation system is the best, with the Great ReSynchronization of 13 years ago and the Ruusan Reformation of a millennium ago being popular contenders."
―HoloNet News[1]

The Great ReSynchronization calendar was a dating system that was established in 35 BBY by the Republic Measures & Standards Bureau to recalibrate the disparate dating systems used by the Galactic Republic.[1] This 12-month calendar used the Great ReSynchronization of 35 BBY as its zero point.[2] It was the main calendar used in the galaxy during the Clone Wars and the Imperial Era.[3][4]

Description

The Great ReSynchronization calendar was a 12-month/368-day calendar,[5] with months of 30 or 31 days.[6]

Dates using the ReSynchronization calendar were written in the following format:[2]

[Year]:[Month]:[Day]
ex. 13:5:21

Dates after ReSynchronization did not include trailing characters. Dates occurring before the ReSynchronization were followed by "BrS," for Before ReSynchonization:[2]

ex. 4,965 BrS

Based on this calendar, the Naboo Crisis took place in year 3,[6] the Separatist Crisis began in year 11,[1] the Battle of Geonosis took place in the year 13, the Great Jedi Purge in the year 16, the Battle of Yavin in the year 35, and the Battle of Endor in the year 39.[6]

History

The Great ReSynchronization calendar was introduced in 35 BBY to replace the previous iteration of the Galactic Standard Calendar, established one millennium earlier by the Ruusan Reformation.[1]

One decade later, the Ruusan calendar was still in use in the Republic. Thirteen years after the Great ReSynchronization, in 22 BBY, debates occurred within the Republic regarding which zero-point calendar system — the ReSynchronization calendar or the Ruusan Reformation calendar — should be used.[1] The Great ReSynchronization calendar eventually emerged as the main dating system used in the galaxy in the next decades.[3][4]

The calendar introduced with the Great ReSynchronization was still used during the Imperial period and the Galactic Civil War,[7] although some Imperials preferred to use the establishment of the Galactic Empire (19 BBY) as the starting point.[source?]

Around 25 ABY, the Great ReSynchronization calendar was disbanded and reorganized by the New Republic which preferred the 'ABY-BBY' dating system, centered around the Battle of Yavin (0 BBY/ABY).[8]

Behind the scenes

The dating scheme for the Great ReSynchronization calendar was introduced in West End Games' Star Wars Adventure Journal for its recurring in-universe articles Galaxywide NewsNets. This dating system used the year 35 BBY at its zero point,[7] which the 1994 reference book A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded established as the end of the Clone Wars.[9] As later sources placed the Clone Wars one decade later,[10] Pablo Hidalgo's HoloNet News eventually retconned the year 35 BBY as the Great ReSynchronization to justify its use as a calendar zero point.[1][2]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 HNNsmall RM&S; Debates Calendar Reform — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #45 (original site is defunct)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 StarWarsDotComBlogsLogoStacked Star Wars Calendars on Continuity, Criticisms, and Captain Panaka — Daniel Wallace's StarWars.com Blog (original site is defunct)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Holonet News
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Galaxywide NewsNets
  5. ↑ StarWarsDotComBlogsLogoStacked Major Character Birth Years on Keeper of the Holocron — Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog (original site is defunct)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Essential Atlas
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 SWAJsmall "Galaxywide NewsNets" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 3
  8. ↑ The Essential Chronology
  9. ↑ A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
  10. ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones