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Syraki civilization does not possess a standard calendar in the human sense. Calendars may exist inside planets, stations, local institutions, reenactment cultures, historical reconstructions, archival projects, or RUNs that deliberately imitate biological or civilizational life, but these calendars are local conventions rather than the temporal foundation of the Complex.

The Complex is measured through layered temporal systems: Base Reality Coordinate Time for physical chronology, sectoral Complex cycles for computational operation, and RUN-time for experienced duration inside reality software. None of these is equivalent to a Gregorian-derived civilizational calendar, and none begins from a simple human-readable founding date. When human-style dates, years, days, hours, or calendar references appear in the novel, they should be understood as translations required by Mike's human-compatible reduction or by a specific local context.

Some human-derived or planet-derived calendars survive as cultural artifacts. They may be used by historians, artists, archaic reenactors, biological-consciousness researchers, or RUN designers who want a world to feel calendar-bound. Such systems can be important inside their own contexts, but they do not govern syraki civilization. A calendar in the Complex is usually an experiential interface, a local contract, or a historical aesthetic, not the master structure of time.