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Very much inspired by u/calvinyl's calendar system, the people who use Liëth have symbols for their years, months, and days of the month. These are either hand drawn or more likely placed with a stamp and filled in. This keeps in line with their philosphy of keeping things compact, quickly readable, and beautiful. The following is how to use it for our own calendar needs.

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The Year

The Sun is used to represent the year. There are four quarters to place the compact forms of numbers to indicate the possible years of 0000 through 9999. Only the compact stellar carrier numbers are written here. Because of the way the numbers are situated, the year is pronounced in two parts: xx xx.
If there is a zero in the first or third quarter it is usually pronounced "nil". No quarter of the year is ever left blank, it must be filled with at least a zero.

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The Months

The Moon itself is used to represent the months.

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The Greater Nova

The Greater Nova holds one of the ancient numerals for 1, 2, or 3 in each quarter to indicate the date of 1 through possibly 39, however our needs won't go past 31.
In the upper left corner goes the multiplier for the date: nothing for the ones place, 1 for the tens place, 2 for the twenties, and 3 for the thirties.
In the upper right corner goes the first marker for the ones place: 1, 2, or 3. If your date does not have a 1, 2, or 3 in the ones place then this is left blank.
In the lower left corner goes the second marker for the ones place: 4 (writing a 1), 5 (writing a 2), or 6 (writing a 3). If your date does not have a 4, 5, or 6 in the ones place then this is left blank.
In the lower right corner goes the third marker for the ones place: 7 (writing a 1), 8 (writing a 2), or 9 (writing a 3). If your date does not have a 7, 8, or 9 in the ones place then this is left blank.

The days of the week are marked by vowels in the usual order.

If the Modern Mode is being used then the planetary forms of vowels are used instead.

Dates are normally written on the top right corner of the page in the order:

Year
Month/Day/Weekday

1937
Sep 21 Tue

To write the entire date more compactly the number only form YYYYMMDD is used. The comma or colon to separate the dates is optional but not necessary, as these sets of numbers cannot be read any other way. Zeroes are not optional. There is no indicator for the day of the week. The greater forms of 1 and 9 would be used in handwriting at the beginning and end of whatever set, but not likely in official notation to save space.

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The links below cover everything about using Liëth outside of a computer. If you would like to view the detailed .odt document, which covers what is in the links and how to use the font on computers please follow here:

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