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==Notes==

''The Scarlet Brotherhood'' p.64 states that the current year is 1395 OL, but that the Olman Lunar calendar began in -805 CY. However, this is inconsistent.

The current year of ''TSB'' is 591 CY or 6106 SD. (Page 18, "Faith", describes the start of 6016 SD in the past tense, but page 24, "Old Aerdy East", describes the start of 6107 SD in the future tense; the map concurs with a date of 591 CY or 6016 SD.) If 1395 OL is the current year, 1 OL (1394 years earlier) must therefore be equal to 4712 SD, or -804 CY.

The figure of -805 CY is therefore assumed to be a date miscalculation, which are common when using negative dates, even in official sourcebooks. A probable scenario is that an editor incorrectly calculated 591-1395 (rather than 591-1394, to get year 1), then subtracted another 1 to account for the lack of a year zero in the [[Common Year]] calendar.{{refn |name=yearzero|"When calculating [[Common Year]]s prior to the [[Declaration of Universal Peace]] in [[1 CY]], remember that Common Year reckoning has no “year zero.” Thus, the time elapsed between 5 CY and –5 CY is only nine years, not ten."{{csb|LGG|13}} }} to get -805. The alternative is that Olman Lunar started counting from a year zero, but this would be unusual and is not explicitly attested in any sourcebook.