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[Keever]

A footnote in reference to your comment about days and nights being referred to as such in Eorzea is the use of the word sennight to apparently mean two weeks or (presumably) sixteen days, given the Eorzean week is made up of eight days not seven like Earth (an eight-day week is also shared by FFXI's Vana'diel).

A sennight is seven days, and is a real-life term. Eorzeans make use of "fortnight" (fourteen days) as well.

@Temple46:

• 1 ilm: An adult Hyuran thumb, a ripe rolanberry
• 1 fulm: 12 ilms, an adult Hyuran foot, a grown chocobo tailfeather
• 1 yalm: 3 fulms, a bastard sword blade, an adult Lalafellin male
• 1 malm: 1760 yalms, the distance an adult Elezen can run in a tenth bell, the approximate height of O'Ghomoro

• 1 onze: An adult Hyuran thumb, a 100-gil coin
• 1 ponze: 16 onzes, a merchant's scale stone, a block of kukuru butter
• 1 tonze: 2,000 ponzes, a fully matured goobbue, 600 bottles of Wineport red (1 standard overseas shipment)

In other words, ilm = inch, fulm = foot, yalm = yard, malm = mile, onze = ounce, ponze = pound, tonze = ton.

Here's a link to a breakdown of Eorzean time measurements from a book that was readable in 1.0:
60 seconds to the minute, 60 minutes to the bell, 24 bells to the sun, 8 suns to the week, 4 weeks to the moon, 12 moons to the year, 12 years to the epoch.

However, Eorzeans still use the terms "hour", "day" and "month" just as often as bells, suns and moons. Decades are also often used, whereas I cannot find a single mention of an "epoch" in 2.0 onwards, nor to the old elementally-named days of the week mentioned in 1.0 ("Firesday" and so on). There's no explicit mention of eight-day weeks either, but fortnights are referred to pretty commonly (and sennights occasionally).

So basically the old timekeeping standards from 1.0 are no longer adhered to by any ingame dialogue, nor are they mentioned in the Encyclopædia Eorzea (as far as I can find). If they came out and retconned them altogether it wouldn't really surprise me.