Absalom Reckoning Converter

Evan Young 2025

Copyright Note

This library uses trademarks and/or copyrights owned by Paizo Inc., used under Paizo's Fan Content Policy (paizo.com/licenses/fancontent). This library is not published, endorsed, or specifically approved by Paizo. For more information about Paizo Inc. and Paizo products, visit paizo.com.

Project Description

The Absalom Reckoning is a calendar used in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. A quick little project that I am making into my first deployed package on pypi. It converts standard dates into the Absalom Reckoning Calendar used in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

ArDate Attributes

• month: Full month name in AR calendar (e.g. "Erastus")
• monthShort: Abbreviated month name (e.g. "Era")
• commonMonth: Common folk month name (e.g. "Fletch")
• day: Day of the month (1-31)
• year: Year in AR calendar
• weekday: Full weekday name (e.g. "Moonday")
• weekdayShort: Abbreviated weekday name (e.g. "Moon")
• weekdayNum: Day of week number (1-7, starts with Moonday)
• monthNum: Month number (1-12)
• season: Current season (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)

Methods

• convert(): Converts a datetime object into an ArDate object
• short_date(): Returns date in format "Era 10, 4723"
• long_date(): Returns date in format "Erastus 10, 4723"
• weekday_date(): Returns date in format "Moonday Erastus 10, 4723"
• common_long_month(): Returns date with common month in format "Fletch 10, 4723"
• month_season(): Returns current season as string

Installation

pip install arconverter

Or with uv:

uv tool install arconverter

Usage

from datetime import datetime
from arconverter import convert

# Convert a date to Absalom Reckoning
ar_date = convert(datetime(2023, 7, 10))

# Print the date in various formats
print(ar_date.long_date())        # "Erastus 10, 4723"
print(ar_date.short_date())       # "Era 10, 4723"
print(ar_date.weekday_date())     # "Moonday Erastus 10, 4723"
print(ar_date.common_long_month())# "Fletch 10, 4723"
print(ar_date.month_season())     # "Summer"

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Development (with uv)

# Create and sync a dev environment
uv sync --all-extras --dev

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Lint
uv run ruff check .

# Run the CLI
uv run arconverter