So in my situation, if I decided to sleep for 8 hours, the GM would conduct a diplomacy check to see what the other players would do in thy time period, and then would decide how long, real time, those 8 hours lasts?
I just picked up the pathfinder beginner box, and while reading the rules and glancing over the GM book, I noticed that things outside of combat take hours to complete. Please tell me this isn't real time hours. Is there a formula to calculate how long an hour is in game? Also, how important is time in combat? I'm sure these are real easy/stupid questions, but I'm new and the rule book left this out