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I really like weird date formats. The kind of stand-out alternate date format
in my mind is <a href="https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/arvelie.html">Arvelie</a>
devised by Devine Lu Linvega.

Arvelie splits the year into 26 months of 14 days each.

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Arvelie splits the year into 26 months of 14 days each. The year is "when you start journaling"
which I really, very much like. It makes it a kind of relative calendar to whatever you want.
It makes it feel a little more personal, I think.

Each Arvelie month is a character in the alphabet. The year and day are zero-indexed
which means, if you started journaling in 2020, January 5rd of 2023 is 02A04.

If you've done the math, 26 * 14, you'll notice there's a day missing&mdash;or
even two for leap years! Arvelie handles this rather elegantly. The Year Day, the
last day of the year, is notated with <code>01</code>. So, with the same start year,
if it was December 31st, 2032, the date would be written was <code>12+01</code>.