Tuxedo Mark
Dreamer
I'm currently writing the first story in my pseudo-medieval fantasy setting. I'm trying to figure out the calendar and time, and I need some suggestions.
I'd like to keep things as evenly divided as possible for simplicity's sake. I'm thinking one of their seconds will be equal to one of our seconds, but I'm also considering making the minutes (100 seconds?) and hours (100 minutes?) longer. My idea is the characters are actually older than their years would suggest. For example, an 18-year-old on my world would look like an 18-year-old on our world but might be, say, 41 of our years old. I'd like to toss in some casual references to units of time (among the royalty and other learned; the common folk have no use for formal measurements smaller than a day). I'm guessing their lifespans should be around (but not too much longer than) double our lifespans.
I'm wondering how much that a week would be needed. Would going from a day to a month be sufficient? I can't think of a use for a week, since there isn't a concept of a weekend or a standard day of rest on my world.
I'd like to keep things as evenly divided as possible for simplicity's sake. I'm thinking one of their seconds will be equal to one of our seconds, but I'm also considering making the minutes (100 seconds?) and hours (100 minutes?) longer. My idea is the characters are actually older than their years would suggest. For example, an 18-year-old on my world would look like an 18-year-old on our world but might be, say, 41 of our years old. I'd like to toss in some casual references to units of time (among the royalty and other learned; the common folk have no use for formal measurements smaller than a day). I'm guessing their lifespans should be around (but not too much longer than) double our lifespans.
I'm wondering how much that a week would be needed. Would going from a day to a month be sufficient? I can't think of a use for a week, since there isn't a concept of a weekend or a standard day of rest on my world.