Yeah I vaguely remember that when Discworld started it was a whole thing that they had an eight-day week and the days of the week had special names but by the midpoint of the series Pratchett basically forgot about this and never mentioned it anymorehttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1305557703453011969 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Full years were 800 days long. Which made it kind of weird when a character was described as, say, an 8 year old girl and you had to wonder by whose calendar?
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Replying to @SocialJusticeMg
Thief of Time was written to establish that none of these questions are answerable because time has been shattered and reassembled multiple, er, times so it's best to just ignore it
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There was something in one of the side books where there's a half-assed explanation saying that most people go by the half-year because each year has two of each season in it. Hogswatch is once a full year, apparently.
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Replying to @Zendervai @SocialJusticeMg
Right, because the way it works is the seasons repeat after only a 180-degree rotation of the disc (taking you out of the direct path of the sun going overhead and back into it again), not a 360-degree one
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Of course, this does weird things to the compass directions too, like it means that the sun straight up reverses its direction - half of the year it rises in the east and sets in the west, then switches for the other half to rising in the west and setting in the east
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But he deals with that by just not mentioning it
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