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A '''month''' was a unit of time measurement based on the orbit of a [[planet]]'s [[moon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dawn of the Kotturuh (short story)|The Dawn of the Kotturuh]]'')
A '''month''' was a unit of time measurement based on the orbit of a [[planet]]'s [[moon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dawn of the Kotturuh (short story)|The Dawn of the Kotturuh]]'')


As noted by the [[Ninth Doctor]], 12 months made up the [[Earth]] year, ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'') which was composed of 365 [[day]]s, 24 [[hour]]s long. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] remarked that a month lasted 2,678,400 [[second]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'')
As noted by the [[Ninth Doctor]], [[12 (number)|12]] months made up the [[Earth]] year, ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'') which was composed of [[365 (number)|365]] [[day]]s, [[24 (number)|24]] [[hour]]s long. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] remarked that a month lasted [[2678400 (number)|2,678,400]] [[second]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'')


Months had individual names. Known months, recognised on Earth and elsewhere, included:
Months had individual names. Known months, recognised on Earth and elsewhere, included:

Revision as of 00:29, 19 December 2022

Month

A month was a unit of time measurement based on the orbit of a planet's moon. (PROSE: The Dawn of the Kotturuh)

As noted by the Ninth Doctor, 12 months made up the Earth year, (TV: World War Three) which was composed of 365 days, 24 hours long. (TV: Last of the Time Lords) The Fourth Doctor remarked that a month lasted 2,678,400 seconds. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)

Months had individual names. Known months, recognised on Earth and elsewhere, included:

In what the Tenth Doctor termed "a little leeway", the Saxon Master could only have taken the Doctor's TARDIS to as far back as eighteen months prior to its last departure in May 2008. Indeed, the regenerated Master made his first appearance on Earth, under the alias of "Harold Saxon", just after the downfall of Harriet Jones on Christmas 2006. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

Human pregnancies typically lasted nine months. (TV: The Gathering, Dark Water, The Tsuranga Conundrum) Pregnancy could remain not visible as long as three months in. (TV: Boom Town)

In the Pan Traffic calendar, the month of Hoob was followed by Pandoff, but not Clavadoe. (TV: Bad Wolf)

The Fourth Doctor believed that Christmas lights "always end[ed] up in an impossible tangle that takes a month and most of your sanity to unpick", and he used this as an analogy to explain to Leela how the unrivalled cosmic storm known as the Great Desolatrix ripped through time and space. (PROSE: Red Planet)

Behind the scenes

  • Though he does not specify in the script of The Brain of Morbius, the Doctor's sums reflect a 31-day month.