Time

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Alter aeon has it's own internal time management system represented by a tick which advances the world forward by 10 minutes.

  • 10 minutes is appropriately 30 seconds
  • 1 hour is appropriately 3 minutes (6 ticks times 30 second)
  • nighttime (9am-6am) is appropriately 27 minutes
  • 12 hours is appropriately 36 minutes
  • 1 day is appropriately 72 minutes


Time of day

  • 6am-8am dawn
  • 8am-12pm morning
  • 12pm-2pm noon
  • 2pm-7pm afternoon
  • 7pm-9pm sunset
  • 9pm-6am night

Time of day, weather and terrain are particularly important to the druid class, certain things like lightcatchers can only be charged at specific times.

Strings

The sky begins to lighten, indicating dawn is not far off.
The sun hangs low on the western horizon.

Server time

The server time is currently set to PST to match Dentins local timezone and to help while organizing event although the actually server is located outside this timezone.

Mud was last booted:  Tue Feb  3 08:01:19 2015
Current server time:  Thu Feb  5 04:48:23 2015
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It is Sunday, the 19th day of month 8 (Tarden)
In the year 640 of the reign of Dentin.
Local time in this area is 10:30 pm.

Months

The first month of the year is Havindar, and the last month is Urtide. The 11 months of the year are:

  • Winter:
    • Urtide
    • Havindar
    • Magnodar
  • Spring:
    • Drake
    • Vernodar
    • Vox
  • Summer:
    • Penser
    • Delosden
    • Tarden
  • Fall:
    • Neven
    • Valindar

Years

From typing time years

Note - dates are approximate
RL Date    - Mud Year
1995/01/01 - (age of chaos)
1996/01/01 - Year    0
1997/01/01 - Year   36
1998/01/01 - Year   72
1999/01/01 - Year  108
2000/01/01 - Year  144
2001/01/01 - Year  181
2002/01/01 - Year  217
2003/01/01 - Year  253
2004/01/01 - Year  289
2005/01/01 - Year  325
2006/01/01 - Year  362
2007/01/01 - Year  398
2008/01/01 - Year  434
2009/01/01 - Year  470
2010/01/01 - Year  507
2011/01/01 - Year  533
2012/01/01 - Year  559
2013/01/01 - Year  585
2014/01/01 - Year  611
2015/01/01 - Year  637