Me>>Timezones are not dependant upon timepieces. They were undetectable
>>to the sailors in the Magellanic expedition until they returned home
>>and found they missed a day.
>So, I wonder which one of the eighteen survivors mentioned it?
> "No, really, it's Thursday...read the log!"
> "There, there Hernando...you'll feel better once you've been bled"
They discovered it because the celebration of Saints days etc. on the correct dates was very important to them. "You mean, I haven't been going to Sunday Mass?!?".
>Seriously, how wide are your Gloranthan Time Zones and how many of them are
>there? Are they approx. 1,000 miles each like the RW?
I don't know and I don't need to know any more than I need to know the height of the sky dome. So far nobody has measured it and it has very little impact in glorantha as nobody has circumnavigated glorantha yet. The key feature is that it leaves the gloranthan days looking like earthern days where-ever one is. One could reject the notion of timezones in favour of Sandy's suggestion but that would negate certain pet theories of mine.
>Now I think the Mostali and the Westerners have such accurate clocks
>[to detect the time zones], though for different reasons and using
>different methods, and maybe the God Learners had them too.
If the Westerners had accurate time-clocks then the God Learners also had them. "God Learner" is virtually synonymous with "second age westerner". But the west has waterclocks which have an accuracy of around 15 minutes at best. The mostali may be capable of detecting it but they lack the inclination to do so IMO.
Sergio Mascarenhas:
>Nights are dark, but is this elemental darkness?
Yes.
>If the dark at night is elemental darkness, where does it came from? And
>where does it go in daylight?
It comes from Hell and flees there every dawn.
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