In general, you are rarely made conscious of just how arbitrary calendar time is. Technically, since the base year for the Indian calendar is 79AD, which is CE+78, I was born on 1, Kartik, 1896, and am already 45y old in lunar years, but still 44 by solar years.
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Science fiction stories with alien species gloss over calendar tech too easily. A space-faring species would have to construct meaningful, galactic-scale, relativity-accommodating calendar systems. It would also need to reverse engineer the local society's calendar.
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Back on earth, lunar and solar dissonance also keep astrologers employed, since the moon is very significant, but its movement against the stars is determined by both its own movement and the solar year.
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