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"This will be a day long remembered."
―Darth Vader[1]

A day was a unit of time on the Galactic Standard Calendar. One day was the amount of time it took for a planet to make one complete rotation on its polar axis. Twenty-four standardized hours was considered to be a standard day.[2]

The length of a day varied between planets. The length of day for most terrestrial planets not subjected to tidal locking was in the range of 18 to 36 standard hours. Tide-locked planets did not have days. Satellite planets - moons orbiting a gas giant - were almost always tide-locked to the gas giant they orbited. Satellites may have days several dozen hours long (as long as it takes the satellite to orbit the gas giant).[3]

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During Roan Novachez's time at the Jedi academy on Coruscant, the days of the week were organized as Monoday, Duoday, Triday, Quadday, Pentaday, Hexaday and Heptaday.

Non-canon information ends here.

Days of the week

  1. Primeday[4]
  2. Centaxday[4]
  3. Taungsday[4]
  4. Zhellday[4]
  5. Benduday[4]

Some locales had other names for days of the week, including Thursday[5] and Saturday.[6]

Behind the scenes

The length of the standard day is derived from the length of one Earth day.

Star Wars: New Planets, New Perils! mentioned Sunday school, but gave no indication it was named for a day of the week.[7]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
  2. ↑ Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
  3. ↑ Planets of the Galaxy, Volume One, pages 9, 15 – 16
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 HyperspaceIcon Dining at Dex's on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available)
  5. ↑ The Last of the Jedi: Master of Deception
  6. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE)
  7. ↑ Star Wars (1977) 7

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