Year
A year was a unit of time equivalent to one full solar rotation, which differed from planet to planet. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars [+]Loading...["The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)"])
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An "Earth Year" (PROSE: Who Am I? [+]Loading...["Who Am I? (short story)"]) typically lasted 365 days, each 24 hours long, across 12 months. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], Last of the Time Lords [+]Loading...["Last of the Time Lords (TV story)"]) More specifically, in an Earth-standard Gregorian calendar, a year was 365.25 days long. (PROSE: Instead of You [+]Loading...["Instead of You (short story)"])
Earth and Gallifrey shared the same distance from the same type of sun and with it the same length of day and year, a fact which fascinated the Time Lords. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"], Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]) According to another account, the Fourth Doctor once said to a human audience that he "would be over 750 years old in your Earth years", suggesting the years of his homeworld had a different length. (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Letter from the Doctor (DWM 12 short story)"]) Another account stated that as of 2323, it was accepted in Meta-Historical study that Gallifrey's unit for long spans of time, "yεαρσ", did not in fact correspond to its orbital period. There were several suggestions of how this really worked, including "13-period years" and "millennial years". (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
A Yquatine year consisted of 417 days, divided into ten months of about 42 days each, further divided into four seasons. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine [+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"])
A night on Darillium lasted 24 Earth years. (TV: The Husbands of River Song [+]Loading...["The Husbands of River Song (TV story)"])
The Sontarans measured time with Sontaran martial years. (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar [+]Loading...["Heroes of Sontar (audio story)","Heroes of Sontar"]) On Manussa, time was measured with Manussan years. (AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake [+]Loading...["The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)"], TV: Snakedance [+]Loading...["Snakedance (TV story)"])
The Space Year was a standard human dating system used by colonists on Destination, (AUDIO: The Destination Wars [+]Loading...["The Destination Wars (audio story)"]) among other worlds. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Annual events[[edit] | edit source]
Beltane was a pagan festival which began at midnight on 30 April — that is, the first minute of the first day of May. 1 May itself was May Day. (TV: The Dæmons [+]Loading...["The Dæmons (TV story)"])
August bank holiday was described by the Seventh Doctor as a "silly pagan festival". (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"])
According to the Fourteenth Doctor, the "whole idea" of an annual was that it was yearly, and so the year his previous letter to the annual's readers was appropiate. He also asked the readers about their year and mentioned that his had "its ups and downs." (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor [+]Loading...{"page":"6","1":"A Letter from the Doctor (DWAN 2024 short story)"})
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In 2066, shortly after Herbert Bittle retired from being a postman, he bit a dog as revenge for the years of being bitten by dogs. Bittle was to appear in court roughly a week later charged with cruelty to animals. (PROSE: Solar Streak A.O.K. [+]Loading...["Solar Streak A.O.K. (short story)"])
In the 2060s, Sam Loover of the WIN's London branch insisted that reports of a nine-year-old agent were "gross exaggerations". (PROSE: Stalemate! [+]Loading...["Stalemate! (short story)"])
