On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:24:34 -0600, Mark Landin <marklandin at gmail.com> wrote: > Farmers are a bad example. They get up when it's light enough to work > and quit when they can't see anymore, whether's that's 6:00 AM or 4:00 > AM or 13:00 midnight. > The other serious need for accurate timekeeping is naval navigation. > Are Dragaerans serious sea-folk? Any long distance coordination requires accurate timekeeping. And with teleportation, long distance coordination is a common - at least for the rich and powerful. Whether this is for a business meeting, a party, or an assassination, they need to know the time. Zulu time (Grenwich Mean Time) is used for that on Earth. But we don't have instantaneous travel. China uses the same thing, making teleconferences easy within its borders. Farmers don't care whether daylight starts at 6:00 in one part of the empire and at 1:00 in the other part. They get used to whatever - it's the sun that rules their lives. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/