Handling time in Gevey

Most of the Societies on Ewlah employ a time system structured around their base 8 counting system, with the day divided into 8 equal periods, which in turn are divided into 32 units. However the Vreski and Balhe Societies count in base 10 (ókidxekizmu), and order their time periods accordingly.

Skesokidxekizmu - decimal time

Gevey uses the day (rjesu) as the basic unit of time (syesu), 380.401 of which go together to make a Kaliedan year (dxinsu). The year is also divided into four seasons (rofnu) of 95 days, ten months (tetcu) of 38 days, and 38 weeks (vaimu) of 10 days. Furthermore, every fifth year, at the beginning of the year, two additional days are inserted to accommodate the .401 days not accounted for in each regular year. These feast days are called smoidvum.

Gevey is not very imaginative when naming weekdays and months, using numbers:

Days   Months  
first day rjesonu first month tetconu
second day rjezdrjasu second month tedrjasu
third day rezbesu third month tebesu
fourth day rezvilu fourth month tevilu
fifth day resfinu fifth month tefinu
sixth day rezdizu sixth month tedizu
seventh day resaderu seventh month tetcaderu
eighth day resespenu eighth month tetcespenu
ninth day resinu ninth month tetcinu
tenth day resoku tenth month tetcoku

Dividing up the day

The Gevey practice is to divide each day into 10 periods (called feznu), and each period is divided further into 100 sub-periods, or minutes (djoerju). Unlike for months and days, Gevey gives each time period a specific name, as follows:

Period Gevey name Literal Translation
First tcotwju new time early morning, dawn
Second daesyu holy time morning, breakfast
Third kesnu busy time late morning
Fourth kounyu high time lunch, midday
Fifth ïmyu quiet time afternoon
Sixth viedxlju long time late afternoon
Seventh tintcu red time dusk, early evening
Eighth dxaftcu social time dinner, evening
Ninth yaezlu deep time late evening, midnight
Tenth saljku black time night

The normal date and time convention in Gevey is to write the tetcu first, followed by the day and then the year. For time, the feznu goes before the djoerju. Tetcu and feznu are often written out as words. The current date and time in the city of Gevile is shown in the footer below.


This page was last updated on Tetcespenu-22, 544: Tintcu-94 Gevile