Hoid the Former Drifter he/him Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Why is 1 hour 100 minutes? What is the difference? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frustration he/him Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Hoid the Drifter said: Why is 1 hour 100 minutes? What is the difference? Why are feet on Roshar slightly longer? It's what the people use. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless he/him Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) It's been a while since I've read White Sand but it might have something to do with the moon's revolution, since the sun doesn't move across the sky on Taldain. Though the standardisation may also be to take advantage of that fact & use... rounded off decimal numbers, I don't know if that's the correct way to put it. I do recall a Taisha standard time... Edited July 28, 2020 by Honorless 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger he/him Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 Makes sense. Much better then our silly system. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) Because that's just how they do it on Taldain. The reason that a sixty second minute/sixty minute hour system is the standard on Earth is because that's how the Babylonians did things... because they used base-60 mathematics. Taldain's divisions of time presumably make perfect sense to them, just like Roshar uses tens for weeks and months because that number is intrinsic to their world. Edited July 28, 2020 by Weltall 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless he/him Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Weltall said: Because that's just how they do it on Taldain. The reason that a sixty second minute/sixty minute hour system is the standard on Earth is because that's how the Babylonians did things... because they used base-60 mathematics. Taldain's divisions of time presumably make perfect sense to them, just like Roshar uses tens for weeks and months because that number is intrinsic to their world. Huh, I assumed that hours, like days & years would have astronomical reasons tied to how they are ordered, but its more like months & weeks Edited July 28, 2020 by Honorless 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 Oh, there's an astronomical logic behind it as well; base 60 is very convenient for such measurements. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless he/him Posted July 28, 2020 Report Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Weltall said: Oh, there's an astronomical logic behind it as well; base 60 is very convenient for such measurements. Ah, so what they had, they made it fit, kinda like measurement of a year again. Edited July 29, 2020 by Honorless 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoid the Former Drifter he/him Posted July 30, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 On 7/27/2020 at 10:46 PM, Honorless said: I do recall a Taisha standard time... Meaning? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless he/him Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 4 hours ago, Hoid the Drifter said: Meaning? Standard time of Lossand. I don't remember anything more about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternal Khol he/him Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Honorless said: Standard time of Lossand. I don't remember anything more about it. there wasnt much. just that its a 12 hours system. 100 minutes in an hour and that following Taisha standard time, The Diem slept between 11th and 3rd hour and most Officials work between 4th and 9th hour Edited July 31, 2020 by Eternal Khol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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