Timekeeping on Dwaia
As you might expect, it's kind of difficult to keep track of time if your sun and moon are always in the same spots in the sky due to locked square orbits. People really have to think outside of the box to solve their problems. Here are 5 creative ways people keep track of time on Dwaia:
the official way (with calenders and stuff)
Despite the many creative ways of keeping time on Dwaia, people generally accept this calender, generously given to the people of Dwaia (the land) by the Wizards of Eight
| Calender | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days | Wocks | Seasons | Season Group | Years | Representation of years | Octades | |
| Aaday | Clodwock | Rain Season | Season of Wet | Year of the Cro | Freedom | The Woaks | |
| Bogday | Wetwock | Blood Season | Year of the Egg | Birth | The Yolks | ||
| Cowday | Stamwock | Hot Season | Season of Warm | Year of the Cow | Animals | The Tweights | |
| Dayday | Farwock | Hotter Season | Year of the Bo | Humanity | The Threights | ||
| Eggday | Magwock | Drought Season | Season of Dry | Year of the Hand | Power | The Foureights | |
| February | Utwock | Dry Season | Year of the Land | Nature | The Fiveights | ||
| Gremsday | Dusswock | Wind Season | Season of Blow | Year of the Fruit | Life and continuation | the Sixeights | |
| Hekday | Arwock | Storm Season | Year of the Worm | Decay and cycle | the Seveneights | ||
- The table shows how eight days go into one wock, eight wocks into one season, two seasons for each season group, eight or four season or season groups to a year, and so on.
| Easy way to figure shit out | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days to one Wock | Days to one Season | Days to one Year | Days to one Octade | Days to one Woak | Days to one Chungo | Days to one Hoohis | Days to one Bappo |
| 8 days | 64 days | 512 days | 4096 days | 32768 days | 262144 days | 2097152 days | 16777216 days |
| 1 wock | 8 wocks | 64 wocks | 512 wocks | 4096 wocks | 32768 wocks | 262144 wocks | 2097152 wocks |
| 1 season | 4 seasons | 32 seasons | 256 seasons | 2048 seasons | 16384 seasons | 131072 seasons | |
| 1 year | 8 years | 64 years | 512 years | 4096 years | 32768 years | ||
random information & trivia
- A wock is devided into two sections, the workwock and the wockend. The workwock spans the 5 first days of the wock, while the wockend spans the remaining 3.
- 8 seconds to the power of 8 is a Dwaian year.
The Dwaian Second
The Dwaian Second was an invention made by The Cube of Answers after he was asked by Dwaian scientists what constant they should use to measure a second. He used an octade to find a constant worthy of being the foundation of Dwaian timekeeping and came to them with the conclusion that the decay rate between elements, divided by 8 to the power of 8, is the most stable method of keeping time.
A Dwaian second is 1.3 Earth seconds (for reference)
The Dwaian second is calculated by dividing the decay of elements with 8 to the power of 8. The decay of an element is about the length of a Dwaian year, which is 8^5*8^3 seconds long.
There are 64 seconds to a minute = 2^6 seconds
There are 64 minutes to an hour = 2^6 minutes (2^12 or 4096 seconds)
There are 16 hours in a day = 2^4 hours (2^10 or 1024 hours ; 2^16 or 65536 seconds)
number one
There are these small bug creatures called tock-ticks which, when you put them close to your ear, you can hear them counting really fast. Amazingly, all of these tock-tick count in exact unison regardless of how far away from each other they are. It takes some practice, but once you're used to it, you can use this to sync up your time with everyone else who uses this system.
How to read the time from a tock-tick:
- Put your ear to the tock-tick. It will sound like "5950381429 seconds until he comes, he will tear the land, 5950381428 seconds until he comes, he will flay our minds, 5950381427 seconds until he comes, his name is..."
- Ignore the ominous doomsday warnings.
- Now you know the time!
number two
You can also just guess the time. If you're a little too late for a meeting, it's alright. Just say you passed a pair of chicken fetuses from your nose. Eveyone hates when that happens to them and knows how uncomfortable it is, so they won't ask further questions.
number three
Buy a slave to count for you. Slaves are perfectly legal in Dwaia, and even encouraged in some regimes. If you're worried about the social stigma, pretend he's your friend. If people ask why he's counting, say he's mentally disabled. If people say there's no such mental disorder, run.
number four
time yolk
5
Well you know you could always just get a clock.