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You know that con-clock I first posted ? Scrapped it. I redid the concept of measured time on Isse. I came across the French Republican Calendar (which I'd never seen but was eerily similar to the Issean Calendar), which lead me to the concept of Decimal Time . Though I always liked Ursula K. Le Guin's con-time in her book The Left Hand of Darkness , I didn't go through with making up anything on my own because I figured the math would be too hard. But when I can across this, I decided to go ahead with it.

Instead of a 24-hour day, Isse has a 20-hour day!

Here's the tricky part:

1 hour on Isse = 100 minutes (Issean Time)
100 minutes (IT) = 70 minutes (Earthian Time)
Thus, 1 minute (IT) = 70 second (ET)
And 1 second = .7 seconds (ET)

...yeaaaaaaah.

Anyway, the clock starts at zero (which is at the bottom, btw) and goes around in an arch to mimic the path of the sun. Also, First Hour (usually abbreviated in English as 1h) starts at what we would call 6:00 AM, more or less when the sun rises. One is that character that looks like a nine.

art and effed up math (c) me

Description
You know that con-clock I first posted ? Scrapped it. I redid the concept of measured time on Isse. I came across the French Republican Calendar (which I'd never seen but was eerily similar to the Issean Calendar), which lead me to the concept of Decimal Time . Though I always liked Ursula K. Le Guin's con-time in her book The Left Hand of Darkness , I didn't go through with making up anything on my own because I figured the math would be too hard. But when I can across this, I decided to go ahead with it.

Instead of a 24-hour day, Isse has a 20-hour day!

Here's the tricky part:

1 hour on Isse = 100 minutes (Issean Time)
100 minutes (IT) = 70 minutes (Earthian Time)
Thus, 1 minute (IT) = 70 second (ET)
And 1 second = .7 seconds (ET)

...yeaaaaaaah.

Anyway, the clock starts at zero (which is at the bottom, btw) and goes around in an arch to mimic the path of the sun. Also, First Hour (usually abbreviated in English as 1h) starts at what we would call 6:00 AM, more or less when the sun rises. One is that character that looks like a nine.

art and effed up math (c) me