Timekeeping
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Divisions
Spans of time are broken down into smaller units for easier tracking of the passage of time.
- Year
- Annual pattern of solar orbit (vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and winter solstice). There are 360 days and 12 months in the standard calendar.
- Months
- Varies due to existence of two lunar bodies with different orbital periods. Most calendars follow the silver moon. There is a supercyclic pattern measured from when the moons are in conjunction.
- Ten-Day and Five-Day
- Analogous to weeks. three or six per month respectively.
- Day
- Position of sun in sky (sundials), broken into six watches. Individual days are not named but rather numbered.
- Watch
- Broken into four 1-hour periods.
- Hour
- 60 minutes.
Devices
- Instruments and tools to keep track of the time of day or to measure the passing of hours.
- Sand Glasses
- Sand glasses of various duration are employed where available, but due to variance in manufacture they are not standardized.
- Candles
- Candles of fixed size and reasonable burn-times are used by some to track the passing of the hours, but difficult to tell exact time to any fractions smaller than 1/12th (5 minutes).
- Clocks
- Mechanical, water-clocks, weighted pendulums and the like are not yet in use, outside of a few cases.
Calendars
Regional differences in climate make for variance in calendar month names but here's two:
- The Saynoh Calander (silver moon) - Generic
- Atre-Graz - Green Grass
- Spry-ka - Flowering
- Vass-ka - Warming
- Tar-Vass - The Warm
- Tar-Velt - The Dry
- Nule-ka - Cooling
- Tu'd So'mer - Second Summer
- Karlech - Harvest
- Rakt-ka - Rotting
- Tar-Nule - The Cold
- Nulich - Ice
- Juht-ka - Flooding
- Traztinaen - Nae's Year (silver moon) - Used in Waejir
- Trejeiuk - Green-Month
- Pioiuk - Flower-Month
- Stidiupt - Warming
- Tatievanei - Long-Days
- Riaptiuk - Lightning-Month
- Fraipipt - Cooling
- Aicekiuk - Bird-Month
- Alodiuk - Fruit-Month
- Neitipt - Rotting
- Prenevanei - Short-Days
- Siuniuk - Ice-Month
- Uleliuk - Water-Month
Sun Signs
- There is also a sun-sign system noted by the daily progression of the sunrise relative to a series of constellations.