Time Marches On - Measurement of Time and the Calander in Eorzea

[Enkidoh]

Doh! I can't believe I forgot the original game clearly listed the months in character creation! I guess the blonde roots of my red hair are getting into my brain. j/k Thanks for that Gamerescape link, it's answered most of my questions.

Moose, thanks for the info about 'sennights' and 'fortnights' - I don't remember ever hearing those terms listed in 1.0 so that's very interesting (especially as here in Australia we use the term 'fortnight' to mean a period of two weeks, or fourteen days, so yeah, a week of eight days wouldn't really be appropriate then if describing a two week period of sixteen days!

As for building a machine to measure longitude, Myranda, hehe, my father's legacy is me having a reasonable knowledge of horology so I'd say you're referring to a chronograph. I never could grasp the skill needed to take up the trade myself though (plus I'm not really that good at maths ).

Anyway, thanks for that!

[Myranda]

Doh! I can't believe I forgot the original game clearly listed the months in character creation! I guess the blonde roots of my red hair are getting into my brain. j/k Thanks for that Gamerescape link, it's answered most of my questions.

Moose, thanks for the info about 'sennights' and 'fortnights' - I don't remember ever hearing those terms listed in 1.0 so that's very interesting (especially as here in Australia we use the term 'fortnight' to mean a period of two weeks, or fourteen days, so yeah, a week of eight days wouldn't really be appropriate then if describing a two week period of sixteen days!

As for building a machine to measure longitude, Myranda, hehe, my father's legacy is me having a reasonable knowledge of horology so I'd say you're referring to a chronograph. I never could grasp the skill needed to take up the trade myself though (plus I'm not really that good at maths ).

Anyway, thanks for that!

Well, really the only problem Harrison had to overcome was just making a clock keep accurate time at all, whether a simple clock or chronograph or chronometer or whatever other variation you want to use. In his day clocks would be off by seconds per day, obviously not a huge problem to overcome with today's technology. Anyways, how that corresponds to longitude is a story for another day... a good book to read on the subject is aptly titled Longitude, by Dava Sobel.

Going back to any known names for the Eorzean days.... was there a /clock or similar command that listed out the Eorzean and/or Earth time in the chatlog? That might have listed out say, "Eorzea: Iceday 6/17 5:34pm", but I don't remember ever using the command or if it existed.