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 a calendar 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

Calendar
Days	Wocks	Munch	Season	Years	Representation of years	Octades
Aaday	Clodwock	Rain Munch	Season of Wet	Year of the Cro	Freedom	The Woaks
Bogday	Wetwock	Blood Munch		Year of the Egg	Birth	The Yolks
Cowday	Stamwock	Hot Munch	Season of Hot	Year of the Cow	Animals	The Tweights
Dayday	Farwock	Hotter Munch		Year of the Bo	Humanity	The Threights
Eggday	Magwock	Drought Munch	Season of Dry	Year of the Hand	Power	The Foureights
February	Utwock	Dry Munch		Year of the Land	Nature	The Fiveights
Gremsday	Dusswock	Wind Munch	Season of Blow	Year of the Fruit	Life and continuation	the Sixeights
Hekday	Arwock	Storm Munch		Year of the Worm	Decay and cycle	the Seveneights

• The table shows how eight days go into one wock, eight wocks into one munch, two munches for each season, four seasons to a year, and so on.

Easy way to figure shit out
One Wock equals...	One Munch equals...	One Season equals...	One Year equals...	One Octade equals...	One Woak equals...	One Chungo equals...	One Hoohis equals...	One Bappo equals...
8 days	32 days	64 days	256 days	2048 days	16384 days	131072 days	1048576 days	8388608 days
1 wock	4 wocks	8 wocks	32 wocks	256 wocks	2048 wocks	16384 wocks	131072 wocks	1048576 wocks
	1 munch	2 munches	8 munches	64 munches	512 munches	4096 munches	32768 munches	262144 munches
		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 divided 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 to the power of 8 seconds 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:

1. 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..."
2. Ignore the ominous doomsday warnings.
3. 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.