TIME and CALENDAR

Post by **Rias** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:13 pm

While we're getting all in-character-y, I made the TIME and CALENDAR commands a while back and forgot about it till recently, but they're there for those who want to be uber-IC and refer to the time and day of the week in an in-character way. Pretty much the entire continent uses the Viali time and calendar format as standard.

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time
By the Viali Calendar, today is Kingsday, 29th day of Augum of the year 1211.
The time is approximately five bells post-zenith.
(Mon Aug 29 17:14:27 2011)

calendar
Days of the week, according to the Viali Calendar:

   Lightsday  (Sunday)
   Kingsday   (Monday)
   Queensday  (Tuesday)
   Lordsday   (Wednesday)
   Knightsday (Thursday)
   Artisday   (Friday)
   Citisday   (Saturday)

Regarding the time, the term "Bell" is used instead of "hour", and "chime" is used to mean 15 minutes. Some examples:

5:00 = "Five Bells"
5:15 = "A chime past Five"
5:30 = "Half past Five"
5:45 = "A chime to Six"

"Post-Zenith" is like our "PM", so 5:00 PM would be "Five Bells post-zenith."

"I'll meet you a bell from now" would be acceptable to say you want to meet someone an hour from that time, even if the time doesn't end up being exactly on one of the official Bells of the day. Sames goes for using "chime" to mean you'll meet someone in 15 minutes.

I haven't gotten around to putting real effort into month names yet (might not bother beyond slight variations of our real-word month names), and I don't know if I want to go to the length of coming up with equivalent terms for "second" and "minute" or not.