what year is it in the game? and where can i find the info.
thanks
According to "Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting" the year is 4708, it is not a leap year, but 4707 was and 4712 will be.
Hope this helps.
I was under the impression that the current "In game" time is the year 47XX with the XX equal to the real year. Thus it is currently 4711. But I could be wrong.
I was under the impression that the current "In game" time is the year 47XX with the XX equal to the real year. Thus it is currently 4711. But I could be wrong.
Or take the current year and add 2700 to it. :D
Sorry, I was born before Y2K. Your math confuses me and hurts my brain. :)
It's been stated by the designers that the Golarion calendar's equivalents for weekdays and months corresponds precisely to the real world's modern calendar; with the current year being, as Liz pointed out, our common era year + 2700.
So, specifically, it is today Wealday the 2nd of Pharast, 4711 AR (Absalom Reckoning) in Golarion. No word yet on time zones or daylight savings time adjustments though. ;)
So, specifically, it is today Wealday the 2nd of Pharast, 4711 AR (Absalom Reckoning) in Golarion. No word yet on time zones or daylight savings time adjustments though. ;)
FYI, Daylight Saving time is uniquely an United States thing, no need to use that accursed system for the setting (even though I'm a citizen of said country).
So, specifically, it is today Wealday the 2nd of Pharast, 4711 AR (Absalom Reckoning) in Golarion. No word yet on time zones or daylight savings time adjustments though. ;)FYI, Daylight Saving time is uniquely an United States thing, no need to use that accursed system for the setting (even though I'm a citizen of said country).
No, it isn't restricted to the US, but it exists solely as a mean to save energy on artificial lighting at the beginning and end of the typical 8-5 work day; of which your typical Golarion farmer couldn't care less about.
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FYI, Daylight Saving time is uniquely an United States thing
Not being a resident of the U.S. myself, I can assure you that Laurefindel is indeed correct.
So hold on a sec, we have Englishmen to blame for inflicting Daylight Saving concept on us?
To the OP's question, you can always look up the "current Golarion date" on the home page of the Pathfinder Wiki (top right corner).
So hold on a sec, we have Englishmen to blame for inflicting Daylight Saving concept on us?
If ever in doubt, I always blame the English first. Damned Brits!!!
I thought we blamed Canada...
I am Canadian, so...
Fixed it for you.
Damned Americans...
Fixed it for you.Damned Americans...
You do know that mean everyone on North America and South America, technically? :) (Calling the people of USA 'yanks' or 'yankees' is acceptable and less confusing :D)
So hold on a sec, we have Englishmen to blame for inflicting Daylight Saving concept on us?
Vakr's right (well, kind-of).
Apparently, it originally has more to do with dandies catching-up butterflies and playing golf than saving energy...
E]You do know that mean everyone on North America and South America, technically? :)
You know, I've never heard a yankee (or anyone at all really) acknowledge that even though I've held it to be true for years. Frankly, I gave up on trying to make people understand it a long time ago. Fact is, just about nobody would imagine that a speaker is referring to Guatemalans or Brazilians when they use the term "American".
*Shrug*
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Calling the people of USA 'Yanks' or 'Yankees' is acceptable and less confusing
Well, except that in the USA's Dirty South, also called The Deep South and often referred to as the sweaty booty-crack of America, "Yankee" is a pejorative used for Americans "not born in the region that declared war on the rest of the country so they could keep their slaves."
Right or wrong, people from the USA are Americans while people from Canadeea are Canadeeans and people from Brazil are Brazilians and people from Belize are not Mexicans.
Calling the people of USA 'Yanks' or 'Yankees' is acceptable and less confusingWell, except that in the USA's Dirty South, also called The Deep South and often referred to as the sweaty booty-crack of America, "Yankee" is a pejorative used for Americans "not born in the region that declared war on the rest of the country so they could keep their slaves."
Right or wrong, people from the USA are Americans while people from Canadeea are Canadeeans and people from Brazil are Brazilians and people from Belize are not Mexicans.
Ah, the product of the modern education system. The Civil War was only about slaves, of course, it had nothing to do with the division of power between states and the federal government.
In any case, Daylight Savings Time was invented by Benjamin Franklin to save candles, but I believe he developed the idea while in France. Thus, it is an American invention that spread quickly to other parts of the world. Whether it exists in Golarion should probably be up to the GM barring official word, but honestly it has such a negligible effect on gameplay it probably isn't worth worrying about. That said, it would be more useful in Golarion than in the real world because we use electricity and tend to stay up well after dark anyhow.
Edit: Correction! Apparently it was invented in New Zealand. While Ben suggested temporal measures to conserve on candles, Europe didn't track time accurately enough to actually implement DST. Likely this problem would also exist in most of Golarion.
It was invented by an englishman living in New Zealand :P
[necromancy] Arise, O ancient thread of evil! [/necromancy]
A question that arose in the Reign Of Winter AP: What's the time difference between Taldor and Irrisren?
I realise accurate timepieces are a rarity in the Inner Sea, and traveling on foot or by horse you're unlikely to experience enough time difference to matter, but the players in RoW pass through a portal taking them instantly across the world, north and east. I'd like my players to experience a suitable time difference.
The Pathfinder Society would have dealt with portals before, and has some of the best cartographers around. They should therefore have been able to derive a figure for Golarion's circumference, based on the varying times of sunset in different places -- or, as in the ancient real world, the length of shadows at noon as you travel north.
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Whitethrone is about 1400 miles west of Oppara. If we take their average latitude to be, say, 53 degrees N (comparable to halfway between Rome and Helsinki) and assume that Golarion is the same size as the Earth, we get a radius at that latitude of 4000.2pi.cos(55) = 14415 miles. So 1400 miles is 35 degrees or about 2 hours 20 minutes.
Wonderful, thank you. I realise there are inevitable approximations and guesses involved in that figure, but telling my players that the sun has just gone backwards by a couple of hours will really help drive home what's happened.
It's been pointed out in another thread that travelling that far north will also affect the lengths of days - during the summer, the days will be longer nearer the north pole.
and assume that Golarion is the same size as the Earth
Golarion is the same size, axial tilt, etc. as Earth for precisely these reasons.