The Vernalmas Holiday season is a 17-day celebration of the beginning of the new year,
the end of the Falinter mega season (Fall and Winter combined),
a time for friends and families to get together for good times, gift exchanges,
feasts, parties, and recreation.
The Vernalmas Holiday season begins on a Friday in March or Blue depending on the date (see chart below)
and lasts 17 days. In the El Zona realm, day 17 of the holiday season is the start of Daylight Saving Time.
In the real world, the start of Daylight Saving Time varies from country to country, and some
states and countries do not observe Daylight time, though they celebrate the holidays without resetting
their clocks.
When Does Day 1 Begin?
Note that March refers to the Gregorian calendar months.
For the Milliean calendar, Equimas is always Blue 27th and New Year's Day is Aqua 1st.
2000, 2028: Gregorian March 17, Milliean Blue 24
2001, 2029: Gregorian March 16, Milliean Blue 23
2002, 2030: Gregorian March 15, Milliean Blue 21
2003, 2031: Gregorian March 14, Milliean Blue 20
2004, 2032: Gregorian March 19*, Milliean Blue 26
2005, 2033: Gregorian March 18, Milliean Blue 25
2006, 2034: Gregorian March 17, Milliean Blue 23
2007, 2035: Gregorian March 16, Milliean Blue 22
2008, 2036: Gregorian March 14, Milliean Blue 21
2009, 2037: Gregorian March 13, Milliean Blue 20
2010, 2038: Gregorian March 19, Milliean Blue 25
2011, 2039: Gregorian March 18, Milliean Blue 24
2012, 2040: Gregorian March 16, Milliean Blue 23
2013, 2041: Gregorian March 15, Milliean Blue 22
2014, 2042: Gregorian March 14, Milliean Blue 20
2015, 2043: Gregorian March 20*, Milliean Blue 26
2016, 2044: Gregorian March 18, Milliean Blue 25
2017, 2045: Gregorian March 17, Milliean Blue 24
2018, 2046: Gregorian March 16, Milliean Blue 22
2019, 2047: Gregorian March 15, Milliean Blue 21
2020, 2048: Gregorian March 13, Milliean Blue 20
2021, 2049: Gregorian March 19*, Milliean Blue 26
2022, 2050: Gregorian March 18, Milliean Blue 24
2023, 2051: Gregorian March 17, Milliean Blue 23
2024, 2052: Gregorian March 15, Milliean Blue 22
2025, 2053: Gregorian March 14, Milliean Blue 21
2026, 2054: Gregorian March 20*, Milliean Blue 26
2027, 2055: Gregorian March 19, Milliean Blue 25
* = Day 1 is Equimas Eve
When Does Daylight Saving Time Begin?
2000, 2028: Milliean Aqua 10 (translates to Gregorian Apr 2)
2001, 2029: Milliean Aqua 8 (translates to Gregorian Apr 1)
2002, 2030: Milliean Aqua 7 (translates to Gregorian Mar 31)
2003, 2031: Milliean Aqua 6 (translates to Gregorian Mar 30)
2004, 2032: Milliean Aqua 12 (translates to Gregorian Apr 4)
2005, 2033: Milliean Aqua 10 (translates to Gregorian Apr 3)
2006, 2034: Milliean Aqua 9 (translates to Gregorian Apr 2)
2007, 2035: Milliean Aqua 8 (translates to Gregorian Apr 1)
2008, 2036: Milliean Aqua 7 (translates to Gregorian Mar 30)
2009, 2037: Milliean Aqua 5 (translates to Gregorian Mar 29)
2010, 2038: Milliean Aqua 11 (translates to Gregorian Apr 4)
2011, 2039: Milliean Aqua 10 (translates to Gregorian Apr 3)
2012, 2040: Milliean Aqua 9 (translates to Gregorian Apr 1)
2013, 2041: Milliean Aqua 7 (translates to Gregorian Mar 31)
2014, 2042: Milliean Aqua 6 (translates to Gregorian Mar 30)
2015, 2043: Milliean Aqua 12 (translates to Gregorian Apr 5)
2016, 2044: Milliean Aqua 11 (translates to Gregorian Apr 3)
2017, 2045: Milliean Aqua 9 (translates to Gregorian Apr 2)
2018, 2046: Milliean Aqua 8 (translates to Gregorian Apr 1)
2019, 2047: Milliean Aqua 7 (translates to Gregorian Mar 31)
2020, 2048: Milliean Aqua 6 (translates to Gregorian Mar 29)
2021, 2049: Milliean Aqua 11 (translates to Gregorian Apr 4)
2022, 2050: Milliean Aqua 10 (translates to Gregorian Apr 3)
2023, 2051: Milliean Aqua 9 (translates to Gregorian Apr 2)
2024, 2052: Milliean Aqua 8 (translates to Gregorian Mar 31)
2025, 2053: Milliean Aqua 6 (translates to Gregorian Mar 30)
2026, 2054: Milliean Aqua 12 (translates to Gregorian Apr 5)
2027, 2055: Milliean Aqua 11 (translates to Gregorian Apr 4)
The Equimas Shopping Season
The Equimas Shopping Season is where all the gift giving hype goes, not during the weeks
leading into the quietest day of the year: Christmas.
The Equimas Shopping Season begins February 28th Gregorian date on most years, but always on
Blue 6th on the Milliean date, three weeks of shopping presents for gifts to give during
the holidays.
When Does the Equimas Shopping Season Begin?
The day is always Blue the 6th in the Milliean calendar. The shopping season lasts exactly 21 days leading
up to Equimas Day. Gregorian calendar users may celebrate the first day of shopping on Feb 28 and Equimas
Day on March 21st every year to simplify matters. Purists who insist on using the real Milliean dates
of the holidays translated into the Gregorian dates may do so.
February 27:
2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017,
2021, 2025, 2029, 2033, 2037, etc.
Equimas Day
Date: March 21st observed on the Gregorian calendar. Blue 27th observed in the Milliean calendar.
March 8th observed on the Julian calendar until leap year day 2100.
Significance: the first day of spring.
Type of holiday: cultural
Observed by anybody regardless of religious affilliation.
The purpose of the holiday is for people of all differing cultures to celebrate
a day together of gift giving and receiving similiar to Christmas, Hanukkah,
Ramadan, and other holidays.
Equimas Day is the day where Jews, Christians, Athiests, and others can exchange gifts without offending one another when a Christian mistakenly receives a Hanukkah gift or an Athiest receives a Christmas gift, or whatever.
Observances: Gift giving, family meetings, decorating bushes and houses.
Equimas, also known as Equimas Day, is an annual holiday falling on
March 21st that celebrates the beginning of spring and the return of longer days than nights in the Northern
Hemisphere.
Modern customs of the holiday include gift-giving and the display of various decorations—including the Equimas tree, lights, and other symbols. The jolly mythological figure Santo Pedro, or Father Equimas, is also a major aspect of Equimass; he is traditionally believed by millions of children as being a bringer of gifts on or before Equimas Day.
Equimas is celebrated throughout the population of the mythical realm of El Zona de los Misterio and its related regions in that realm, but it is also celebrated by many non-residents of El Zona in the real world, usually because of its cultural status and its non-religious spring-related traditions.
The holiday is potentially capable of being celebrated by anybody regardless of religious affilliation.
The word Equimas originated as a contraction of "Eqinox's Mass". It is derived from the word Equinox, as in the Spring Equinox that usually occurs around the date of March 20th, and the word Mass.
It is common practice that unlike Christmas, there are no Equimas holiday carols, so people won't get sick
and tired of hearing the songs for weeks before the holiday like many do with Christmas Day. There are no
commercial exploitations of the Equimas holiday in the real world such as Hallmark greeting cards or Equimas-themed
TV and radio commercials like there is in the realm of El Zona de los Misterio.
A winter festival is popular among many cultures, but for some, winter is a better time to just hibernate
and let the snow and the cold have its turn, while turning their attention to more work duties.
A spring festival is traditionally the most popular festival of the year in many cultures in the El Zona region simply because it's basically a wake-up call that it's time to stop working and take a break to mark the celebration
of the end of winter and the beginning of warmer and longer days.
Once the Spring Equinox has been reached, it's truly time to celebrate the days of longer days and shorter nights,
unlike the Winter Soltice, where although the days begin to get longer, it's still much shorter than the nights until
the calendar gets close to the Spring Equinox.
Equimas falls during the Vernalmas Holiday Season.
Due to the differences between the way a leap year is inserted between the Gregorian and the Milliean calendars,
people may celebrate Equimas Day on March 21 every year instead of March 20 on leap years and the year after leap year
because Millieans don't insert the leap year until the end of their leap year in which a Blue 31st is inserted.
Another difference is the Daylight Saving Time start dates. Gregorian calendars moved it to the second Sunday in March.
Millieans start DST on the last day of the Vernalmas Holiday season, whichever Sunday it falls on.
When Is Equimas and New Year?
Note that March refers to the Gregorian calendar months.
For the Milliean calendar, Equimas is always Blue 27th and New Year's Day is Aqua 1st.
2000, 2028: Equimas March 20, New Year March 24
2001, 2029: Equimas March 20, New Year March 25
2002, 2030: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2003, 2031: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2004, 2032: Equimas March 20, New Year March 24
2005, 2033: Equimas March 20, New Year March 25
2006, 2034: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2007, 2035: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2008, 2036: Equimas March 20, New Year March 24
2009, 2037: Equimas March 20, New Year March 25
2010, 2038: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2011, 2039: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2012, 2040: Equimas March 20, New Year March 24
2013, 2041: Equimas March 20, New Year March 25
2014, 2042: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2015, 2043: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2016, 2044: Equimas March 20, New Year March 24
2017, 2045: Equimas March 20, New Year March 25
2018, 2046: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2019, 2047: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2020, 2048: Equimas March 20, New Year March 24
2021, 2049: Equimas March 20, New Year March 25
2022, 2050: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2023, 2051: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2024, 2052: Equimas March 20, New Year March 24
2025, 2053: Equimas March 20, New Year March 25
2026, 2054: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
2027, 2055: Equimas March 21, New Year March 25
12 Days of Equimas?
Unlike Christmas (12 days) and Hanukkah (8 days), there is only one day of Equimas.
There are, however, 17 days of Vernalmas, which renders having more than one day of Equimas
redundant, though Equimas is synonomous with Vernalmas, as people often call the 17-day holiday
break the Equimas Holidays.
Return Day
Date: March 22nd observed on the Gregorian calendar. Blue 28th observed in the Milliean calendar.
March 9th observed on the Julian calendar until leap year day 2100.
Following Equimas Day is a holiday called
Return Day, a new holiday for people to return to the malls and stores for extreme markdowns of holiday
merchandise. The day is designed for retailers to mark down their holiday merchandise for clearance for fast sale,
usually 50 percent off the regular price before Equimas Day.
Customers also use the day to return gifts due to unsatisfactory results from gift giving.
For a complete rundown of static and floating holidays, see below.
Vernalmas Holiday Lineup
Static Holidays (most years except where noted)
Always March 20 (Blue 26th): Spring Equinox. This is where the holidays should be centered around! Why celebrate when the noontime sun is at its lowest in December?
Note: on Milliean year before leap years and leap years, it falls on Blue 27th.
March 20 (Always Blue 26th): Equimas Eve (the holiday begins at sunset). Open just one Equimas gift tonight. Also, Dick Clark counts down to Equimas in Times Square...or somebody else does. Parties are everywhere. Santo Pedro rides his eight beefy flying buffalo all over the world overnight delivering Equimas gifts to everybody regardless of religion or culture.
Note: on Gregorian leap years and years after leap years, it falls on March 19th.
March 21 (Always Blue 27th): Equimas (sort of like Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, and Kwanzai rolled into one for anyone no matter who you are to celebrate as one of over six billion individual neurological affilliates of Mother Earth)
Note: on Gregorian leap years and years after leap years, it falls on March 20th.
on Milliean leap years, its always Blue 27th because 27 is a funny number. Many people exchange videos and CDs of "Weird Al" Yankovic on the holiday.
March 23 (Always Blue 29th): Exchange Day, a day where workers exchange Equimas gifts (sort of like Boxing Day in Canada), always on Blue 29th, or the following workday after this date.
Note: on Gregorian leap years and years after leap years, it falls on March 22nd.
March 24 (Blue 30th): Global New Years Eve (new year begins at midnight the next day). Parties are everywhere.
Note: on Gregorian leap years, it falls on March 23rd (translates to Blue 30th).
on Milliean leap years, it falls on Blue 31st, a leap year day (translates to March 24)
March 24 (Blue 31st): Leap Year Day/New Year's Eve (only on Milliean leap years).
It's not a bonus day of the Vernalmas Holiday season, but it basically a day for the Milliean calendar
to readjust itself to remain in line with the solar year or else the calendar would run one day fast every four years.
March 25 (Always Aqua 1st): Global New Years Day (the real new year starts here, but the old traditionalists insist it's March 15th).
Note: on Gregorian leap years, it falls on March 24th.
on Milliean leap years, it's always Aqua 1st.
March 26 (Always Aqua 2nd): Breakfast Feast Day - a day where we have the biggest breakfast meal of the year.
Note: on Gregorian leap years, it falls on March 24th.
Vernalmas Holiday Lineup
Floater Holidays:
Day 1 (begins anywhere from March 13 to 20 Gregorian or Blue 20 to 26 Milliean, a Friday, depending on the calendar): Vernalmas Holidays Begin (Day 1-first Friday) The end of winter celebration days.
Note that Equimas Day cannot fall on Day 1.
Day 2: Days finally as long as the nights most places
Day 3: Understanding all religious cultures day (you don't have to agree with them, just understand why they exist and live with them).
Day 4: Get an early jump on summer day. Practice the summer lifestyle...whatever!
Day 5: Get out of the house and play day. It's the end of cabin fever! Get a blowtorch to melt the snow!
Day 6: Feed the Homeless Feast Day. Better yet, give them a job, and a place to live until they can be on their own! The Vernalmas Holidays are not just a time for giving to the needy, it's a time to get them to pull their own weight. Face it. Just giving blankets and food don't do them much good for long (got that, KSWB and Clear Channel?)
Day 7: Gift giving from those who hibernated thru Christmas.
Day 8: (second week begins): Rock and Dance Party Day (sort of like Mardi Gras, but wilder, only we've already done our version of lent during the winter months!) Parties are everywhere. I told you that the Vernalmas Holidays are party time!
Day 9: Begin Christmas Shopping Day (the snow's melting, now it's the time to start shopping for Christmas before it gets too cold!)
Day 10: Reward yourselves with a family barbecue day
Day 11: Understanding Mother Earth's Wildlife Day
Day 12: Celebrate with beer day. Have a few beer parties with sports, music, and girls wrestling and other manly stuff or something!
Day 13: Exchanging Jokes With Folks Day. Not really April Fools, but close to it.
Day 14: Springtime rekindle your love day (Valentines Day without the winter blahs!)
Day 15: Baseball card collection day
Day 16: Spring cleaning your home day. Invite your relatives to undo all the damage to your place after staying with you for two weeks!
Day 17: The Vernalmas Holiday Season blowout family day. The Return of Evening Daylight, Parades, Parties, Fireworks. It's also the start of Daylight Saving Time.
