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[bentflame]

This is something that I've been wondering for a while-- has anyone bothered to investigate how consistent time of day is across the different worlds? Is there some sort of pattern to it, or is it just completely random? I suppose this would be much easier to answer if you only consider alternates of the same world, but it's an interesting question nonetheless.

It's currently two and a half hours past midnight on my world. Is the time radically different for anyone else?

OOC: Deleted and reposted because my original wording was fail and confusing. \o/

Comments

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

You are missing your beauty sleep princess.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

Happened to us all.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

What, exactly? I'm not an insomniac.

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

No, to stay up late I mean.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

By choice?

[clockmaster.livejournal.com]

Because you want or because you are trying to prove stupid theories.

[serenacelia.livejournal.com]

It's 4:15 PM here. Or 16:15, if you're on the 24 hour system. A huge chunk of the people I've met from different world still use the same system. A lot of them are even in the same timezone.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

So in your experience, at least, there is a system.

[serenacelia.livejournal.com]

Of course. Doesn't your world have one?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I'm talking about one that encompasses different worlds.

[serenacelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. There are more than a few worlds that use this system.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

No, I'm talking about some sort of consistent pattern that regulates the time differences across worlds.

[oceanicbutterfly]

This is a meaningless question. If it's noon here, then it's 10:00 at night on the east coast of America, and 4:00 in the morning in France.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

But there's a system for that, isn't there? I'm wondering if there's some sort of system that regulates time differences across the worlds.

[oceanicbutterfly]

That wouldn't make sense, though. It's not the same time everywhere in the world, so the time difference would vary.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

But is that variation from world to world random, or is there a pattern to it?

[oceanicbutterfly]

The variation between different parts of the same world. If I got on a plane and flew west, the difference would change.

At any rate, it's 6:30 PM here now.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

But I'm not asking about the variation between different parts of the same world. I'm not talking about normal time differences.

And if I had any hope at all that you would be able to answer my original question, I would ask if you have any theories as to why it's 6:30PM in Japan on your world, and 2:30AM in the Fire Nation on my world.

[philoxidizes]

It's half past eight.

Of course, days on different worlds may be different lengths.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

That is also something to consider. However, I believe most are the same.

[philoxidizes]

It's difficult to verify, though, isn't it?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

True. I wouldn't bother.

[philoxidizes]

After all, even if all days on all world are twenty-four hours long, there's no guarantee an hour is the same measure of time.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Another valid point-- though, again, measurements of time seem to be fairly universal here.