Unlike irl, people of Krea do not have days of the week (Like Monday, Tuesday, etc), instead they refer to each day as its literal or semi-literal date and are very time sensitive with their calendars. However, they do use terms like day, week, month, year, tomorrow, today, yesterday, and the like, however the meanings of those words are slightly skewed from our norm as the time flow of Krea is different than Earth.
Because of the odd day-night cycles in the north and south of Krea, Krealings do not have an AM or PM in any country. Instead, they use a system similar to military time. Since a full day in Krea is only 20 hours, they only go to 20 instead of 24 for their times, and their clocks count from 1-20 instead of 1-10 twice.
Much like the difference in hours in a day, they also only have 6 days a week instead of 7 and consider a weekend to be the last day in a week. Lastly they have 5 weeks each month, which causes every month to have exactly 30 days each.
Unlike the days, weeks, and months, however, Krea has a familiar 12 months a year, which correlate with our own 12 months. This means that unlike irl with our 365 days a year, and 8,760 hours per year, Krea has 360 days a year and 7,200 hours per year.
Daylight/Nighttime Customs
Dessiara
Because it is more often light out and very rarely dark in
Dessiara, you will see people active most hours of the day. People will generally set their own schedules as they don't really have a day/night and using the sun to tell the time is unreliable there, so instead they use the moon (Which isn't perfect).
Because time is harder to calculate, most people in Dessiara have clocks, however even with them many lose track of the days and instead just focus on tasks. This can get frustrating to people unused to living in the country, as there's no reliable way to tell the hours of a business in most cases, but because of this most businesses will still accept customers at all hours as long as the owner is awake.
Terramis
Terramis has very strict waking schedules; as soon as the sun rises people get up and start working, and are generally heading to bed as the sun goes down. People are much less active during the night; the only places that are generally still running at night are inns or
brothels.
People wake early as the sooner you're up, the sooner you can get started and the more
munni you might make.
Opirium
Because it is more often dark out and very rarely light in
Opirium, people sleep and wake at varying hours. Most people use the moon instead of the sun to tell the time of the day, and need to use clocks when the sun is out in order to keep track of time.
However even then, most businesses will still accept customers at all hours as long as the owner is awake. Like Terramis, they still have schedules, but like Dessiara, their schedules vary.
Wahvess
Since
Wahvess is deep underwater with no sun or moon, the
city itself has an artificial sun they light every day to signal the start of the day, in which they then dim at the end of the day. This means their time is inaccurate compared to the other countries, as their sun is lit and dimmed at 'around the same time' and not at a specific time on the dot, and they don't really track the hours in the day, only the days themselves.
Like Terramis though, when it's dark out, people are headed to bed, but unlike Terramis, the city is deadly still, dark, and silent. When it's light out, people are busy and the city is bustling.
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