Astronomy Astrology and Time

Daugveidu is a planet orbiting a binary star system. Of the two suns one is small, blue and hot while the other is large, red and cool. In most cultures they are known as the Blue eye and the Red eye. As a consequence of this binary star system, Daugveidu experiences frequent solar eclipses, a greater eclipse when the the blue star is occluded and a lesser one when the red star is occluded

Daugveidu has an astronomical year of 623.8 days. In a year Daugveidu most commonly will have 10 greater eclipses but every 3 to 4 years there will be 11 greater eclipses in the year. Eclipses last between 2 and 3 days

Because the eclipse cycle is so obvious and significant to the citizens of Daugveidu most of the planets calendar systems revolve around the eclipse cycle in one way or another.

While the Elves and Dwarves (and no doubt others) have their own calendar systems, the Yemil-Mezzian Calendar is universally understood.

The Eclipses and daily insolation for any given year can be calculated using the link Daugveidu Suns

The people of Daugveidu break each day up into 20 hours, 10 daylight hours and 10 night time hours. The actual duration of the hours varies through the year and there is no strict timekeeping in Daugveidu. Most townships will use a bell system to maintain a consistent sense of time throughout the town but in rural and wilder regions time is really just an estimate based on an awareness of the suns path and progress. The hours are named after the months using the same abbreviation system with an -ora suffix for daylight hours and a -zak suffix for nighttime hours. Hosszu is never used in reference to hours. A day begins at dawn.

Thus each day we see: Viora (Dawn), Zuora, Zeora, Elora, Haora, -Konnyucsucs (Midday, not an hour), Koora, Beora, Reora, Vaora & Ozora (Dusk) followed by Vizak, Zuzak, Zezak, Elzak, Hazak, -Sotetvalyu (Midnight, not an hour), Kozak, Bezak, Rezak, Vazak & finally Ozzak.

Yemil-Mezzian Weights and Measures