Do I look like an Eskimo?

Something I have always wondered...its 11:35AM yet with my environmental editor set to region default its pitch black with twinkling stars. As far as I know there are very few places in on earth where it's dark at 11:35AM so why is SL? Surely it cant be that hard to cycle the sun in synch with PST as default?

I've also wondered that.
I'd like to find a clock/watch to tell me environment time, not only adjusted GMT.

Aren't SL days 4 or 6 hours long? (o.o) SL doesn't have a 24 hour sun cycle as far as I know. (o.o)

SL works on a 3 hour daylight, 1 hour night cycle, unless the sim owner has got it set up differently, like a vampire RP sim where it's always midnight.

Yeah. 4 SL to 24 RL hours. Why? I dunno.

I believe (someone may correct me on this) that SL cycles on a four hour basis. I'm sure there's a very good reason for it, and I'm guessing it's got something to do with SL being open to all nationalities. Folks in other parts of the real World might object to spending their SL day in darkness because it's cycling on PST. Similarly there would probably be grumbling from the American side if SL cycled on a GMT basis..and so on.

Astrid

I like the rotation schedule, sunsets and sunrises happen often enough that I can catch them when they occur. Sure, I can set the environment to sunset ... but the sun doesn't actually *set* when you do that.

LOL how long have I been here! Never noticed that before. Am so unobservant.

Has anyone investigated the shape of this place? Is it spherical, cylindrical, or flat? Looks flat to me.

Just wondering

If you go east - west, you circle. if you go north-south, I *think* you circle. That would say "donut" to me. Torus?

SL has 4 "days" of three hours each in a 24-hour period, punctuated by 1-hour nights. And yes, I believe that is so people all over the world can experience Sl in the daylight or at night, and not be stuck with one time zone.

The Grid is flat. You can't go off one edge and come back on the far side.

Ahem, Porky

That's "inuit" or "innuit"

It's inuit, innit.

Yes, I tried to be PC and type that but wasnt sure of the spelling and didnt want to type 'innit' by mistake and sound like a chav.

Although if you are Canadian you probably arnt aware of what a chav is so probably have no idea what im talking about

Better a chav than a yob, Porky

Actually, Americans still use Eskimo. They'll catch up, no worries.

Yo, Herzog, your IM mailbox is full!

B.

Hmm...now I am wondering if they have Chav's in Canada?

What a weird and wonderful journey Resident Answers takes me on sometimes

has anyone ever been to the vey edge of SL ? Does it just stop? Do you fall off the edge LOL ? is there a sign saying " You have reached the edge" hee hee and when you stand there you can look out into the Real World and see the Lindens all sitting there in their offices drinking coffee and they wave back and shout "Darn it!!! there is another one of our residents trying to escape" !!! just wondering really !

Maxi

Only certain peoples of Canada and Greenland are Inuit. In Alaska there are Yupik and Inupiat and also Yupiks in Siberia. There are probably others too that I haven't yet heard of. The lives, languages and cultures of these Northern people are fascinating.

Not all 'eskimos' are Inuit

When you reach the edge of the Grid, you realize it's all just one gigantic Habitrail system, on Torley's desk...

(Habitrail = those plastic tube and aquarium gerbil environments...)

Can't decide, Yupik.

Nah, I'm having nunavik.

If the "daytime" is 3 hours long and the "nighttime" is 1 hour long, that is a total of 4 hours, which by my calculations would happen 6 times in a 24-hour period.

So, there would be 6 complete days in SL to every complete day in RL.


/me wanders off, knowing she is brain-dead and not even sure of her own calculations at this point.

You are correct. Checked the Knowledgebase, and it confirms there are six in-world cycles of 3 hours daylight and 1 hour night per each 24-hour real day.

So the Forum Men can take me out dancing four times a day, of course.