Re: Time on Fantasy worlds
- From: zeborah@xxxxxxxxx (Zeborah)
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:23:14 +1200
Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
I have a cookbook that never includes time ("bake until the center is
firm", with absolutely no clue as to whether that will take five
minutes or two hours).
Quite rightly, too. Different ovens do different things to what one's
cooking.
I don't know how smeerpy, but my characters judge the time of day as
first light, the Sun is half-high, noon, etc. and everything else is
in moments and heartbeats.
By 1523 I gather that clocks were rather common throughout Scandinavia
(though I'm not sure whether that's common as in "practically every town
had one!" or "every major public building" or "every private citizen
with a hundred marks to rub together"). Nevertheless when referring to
the time I've been using only the canonical hours of lauds through to
matins. Given the number of churches, monasteries and convents in town
with lots and lots of bells, I figure they're more audible.
I don't have a big problem with saying "a few minutes" or "[about]
quarter of an hour" though, as long as it's suitably vague.
Zeborah
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