"Don't worry about it, I've no idea what the date is. Just say 'short' or 'long' and I'll have an idea based on that." Not as if he cared much about dates. The seasons, of course, even after all these years, the seasons still meant something. Considerably less since he wasn't in either court however and so usually he didn't care too much about that.

"What do you do to pass the time, sunshine?"