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{{As Of Patch|2.0.192.0}} | |||
Caves of Qud uses an idiosyncratic system of measuring time. The base measurement the game uses is referred to as a TimeTick (also referred to as game ticks in this article). Each TimeTick can be generally considered to be an ingame turn at 100 [[quickness]]. | |||
There are 24 hours in a day, and 50 game ticks in an hour. | |||
==Eras== | |||
Years are separated into two separate eras: BR (Before [[Resheph]]) and AR (After [[Resheph]]). These two are separated by the year that [[Resheph]] resigned as the last Sultan. Like the real life equivalents BCE and CE, years in BR count backwards, so 60 BR is later in time than 100 BR. | |||
PP is an alternate era name used in {{favilink|Frivolous Lives, Vol. I}}, which denotes the rule before the 6 sultans. Like BR, the years in PP count backwards. The author denotes PP as "prior [to] publication". The specific year in which Frivolous Lives was published is unknown, but since it references Abram I as ruling from '100?-97?' prior to publication, this places it around 1000AR, since Resheph and Abram were contemporaneous in 3AR.<ref>[[Resheph]]</ref> | |||
YK is another alternate era name used in {{favilink|Corpus Choliys}} and {{favilink|Council at Gamma Rock}}. There is no known relationship between YK and the other eras. | |||
==Years== | |||
One year is 13 months, 438,000 game ticks, or 365 days. At game start, the starting year is 1001 AR. | |||
==Months== | |||
A month is measured in game as a length of 30 days (36,000 game ticks), except for Ut yara Ux, which is 5 days long (6,000 ticks). | |||
# Nivvun Ut | |||
# Iyur Ut | |||
# Simmun Ut | |||
# Tuum Ut | |||
# Ubu Ut | |||
# Uulu Ut | |||
# Ut yara Ux* (5 days) | |||
# Tishru i Ux | |||
# Tishru ii Ux | |||
# Kisu Ux | |||
# Tebet Ux | |||
# Shwut Ux | |||
# Uru Ux | |||
===Ut yara Ux=== | |||
Ut yara Ux was created in part for each normal month to have 30 days, with the remaining 5 days becoming Ut yara Ux. During this month, a festival takes place which its success can be a [[Faction relationship reasons|point of contention]] among factions. Ut yara Ux is also when the [[Council at Gamma Rock|annual Wardens' Moot]] occurs. | |||
==Day Segments== | ==Day Segments== | ||
Each day in game is 1,200 game ticks. Regular months have a total of 30 days, while the shorter months only have 5 days. Each day is separated into segments as follows: | |||
{| class = "wikitable" | {| class = "wikitable" | ||
| rowspan="3" style="text-align: center; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #0f3b3a, #155352, #da5bd6 ); color:#ffffff;" | Night | | rowspan="3" style="text-align: center; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #0f3b3a, #155352, #da5bd6 ); color:#ffffff;" | Night | ||
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| style="text-align: center; background-color:#da5bd6;" | | | style="text-align: center; background-color:#da5bd6;" | | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;height:125px;" | The Shallows | ||
| style="text-align: left;vertical-align:bottom;" | 300 | | style="text-align: left;vertical-align:bottom;" | 300 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan=" | | rowspan="7" style="background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #da5bd6, #40a4b9, #77bfcf, #e99f10, #f15f22, #b154cf); color:#0f3b3a;" | day | ||
| style="background-color:# | | rowspan = "2" style="background-color:#40a4b9;" | | ||
| style="height: | | rowspan = "2" | Harvest Dawn | ||
| style="height:25px;"|325: Day Starts | |||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: | | style="text-align: left;vertical-align:bottom;height:125px;" | 450 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| style="text-align: center; background-color:#77bfcf;" | | | style="text-align: center; background-color:#77bfcf;" | | ||
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| style="text-align: center; background-color:#f15f22;" | | | style="text-align: center; background-color:#f15f22;" | | ||
| | | style="text-align: center;" | Hindsun | ||
| style="text-align: left; height:150px;vertical-align:bottom;" | 900 | | style="text-align: left; height:150px;vertical-align:bottom;" | 900 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan=" | | rowspan = "3" style="text-align: center; background-color:#b154cf; color:#cd9934;" | | ||
| style=" | | rowspan = "3" style="text-align: center; height:100px" | Jeweled Dusk | ||
| | | style = "height:100px;" | | ||
|- | |- | ||
| style=" | | rowspan="4" style="background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #b154cf, #155352, #0f3b3a); color:#ffffff;" | Night | ||
| style="text-align: | | style="text-align: left; vertical-align:bottom; height:25px;" | 1000: Night Starts | ||
|- | |||
| style="text-align: left;vertical-align:bottom;" | 1050 | | style="text-align: left;vertical-align:bottom;" | 1050 | ||
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== | == Conversions == | ||
= | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- | |||
! timespan !! in turn ticks !! in hours !! in days !! in months<ref name="month">Any month other than Ut Yara Ux.</ref> !! in years | |||
|- | |||
| turn tick || 1 || 1/50 || 1/1200 || 1/36000 || 1/438000 | |||
|- | |||
| hour || 50 || 1 || 1/24 || 1/720 || 1/8760 | |||
|- | |||
| day || 1200 || 24 || 1 || 1/30 || 1/365 | |||
|- | |||
| month<ref name="month"/> || 36000 || 720 || 30 || 1 || 6/73 | |||
|- | |||
| year || 438000 || 8760 || 365 || 12 1/6 || 1 | |||
|- | |||
| Ut Yara Ux || 6000 || 120 || 5 || 1/6 || 1/73 | |||
|} | |||
== Trivia == | |||
{{Opinion}} | |||
* The month names appear to be loosely based on the names of the Jewish calendar months. | |||
{{References}} | |||