On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Philip Hart wrote: #It's 29 hours, according to some nice FAQ somewhere. It's 30 hours, well attested. See my writeup at http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/time.html#clock It begins: >>> The Dragaeran minute has 60 seconds, and the hour 60 minutes [FHYA307]. Beyond that, nothing's the same as ours. The day has 30 hours [TPG212], reckoned from midnight and noon: e.g., "the ninth hour" [TPG90], "the tenth hour of the morning" [FHYA516], "the eleventh hour past noon" [TPG93,Jrg233], and sometimes also in our style, as "thirteen o'clock" [Orc135] or (in writing) "13:00" [FHYA71-73]. The day begins at midnight [FHYA161]. <<< # I don't think that #really matters, unless horses have been engineered - you have to take #gravity, whether Dragaerans are lighter than standard humans, etc etc into #account - as I rather doubt the extra five hours would be much help - at #least I imagine not being much more productive with the extra time if I #had to use it up each day. Actually I think that Vlad would have #complained about being tired all the time living on such a schedule... After living on Dragaera for over 200,000 years, I rather imagine that the humans (Easterners) have adapted well to the 30-hour day. Note that four meals a day seems standard [TPG205,433; FHYA somewhere]. Just don't ask how Terran languages remain recognizeable over such a span, and the Easterners haven't gotten past medieval tech. Just... don't. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website