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- "This will be a day long remembered."
- ―Darth Vader
A day was a unit of time on the Galactic Standard Calendar. One day was the amount of time it took for a planet to make one complete rotation on its polar axis. Twenty-four standardized hours was considered to be a standard day.[2]
The length of a day varied between planets. The length of day for most terrestrial planets not subjected to tidal locking was in the range of 18 to 36 standard hours. Tide-locked planets did not have days. Satellite planets - moons orbiting a gas giant - were almost always tide-locked to the gas giant they orbited. Satellites may have days several dozen hours long (as long as it takes the satellite to orbit the gas giant).[3]
During Roan Novachez's time at the Jedi academy on Coruscant, the days of the week were organized as Monoday, Duoday, Triday, Quadday, Pentaday, Hexaday and Heptaday.
Days of the week[]
Some locales had other names for days of the week, including Thursday[5] and Saturday.[6]
Behind the scenes[]
The length of the standard day is derived from the length of one Earth day.
Star Wars: New Planets, New Perils! mentioned Sunday school, but gave no indication it was named for a day of the week.[7]
Appearances[]
Non-canon appearances[]
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Non-canon sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
- ↑ Planets of the Galaxy, Volume One, pages 9, 15 – 16
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4
Dining at Dex's on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available)
- ↑ The Last of the Jedi: Master of Deception
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE)
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) 7
External links[]
Non-canonical appearances[]
- Jedi Academy
- Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan
"Kessel Run" — Star Wars Tales 16
"Sandstorm" — Star Wars Tales 15
"Smuggler's Blues" — Star Wars Tales 14- The Star Wars 3
"The Long, Bad Day" — Star Wars Tales 16 (Title only)
"Best Birthday Ever" — Star Wars Tales 16
"Do or Do Not" — Star Wars Tales 15
