SL Time

LAST UPDATE

I don't know when it happened but the guys from Linden Lab changed the time system in SL, especially daylight and night time. I haven't entered SL for a long time and when I was investigating these last weeks, I could see that the daylight hours did not coincide, since I usually use the day and night cycle on my flights.

At present it has been changed to THREE hours instead of FOUR (as it is stated in this article that I did a long time ago). There are TWO hours of day and ONE of night, so a HUMAN day in SL is equivalent to EIGHT days within the metaverse.

But the start of a certain time is not the same for all environments, so a table of times in which it is day or night cannot be established. For example, I like to use the "Misty Day" environment, which you can locate in the environments folder by entering DAY folder. I was preparing a list with the hours but in the end they don't match every time I go back in (sometimes it changes by an hour or so). I will continue investigating about it. ;)

This is the last update as of September 2023.

Introduction

It is well known that the time used in Second Life is based on Pacific time, or in the place where are the headquarters of Linden Lab in San Francisco; but besides of the hour, all commonly we used, also is the day cycle or "Second Life Daycycle Time" (SLDT), which is adapted to this schedule in a very particular manner (though not everyone likes to have activated the cycle of day to be doing activities best seen in daylight); this daily cycle consists of three hours with daylight and one hour in night time mode, along with a time lapse (four minutes) dedicating two minutes before and two minutes after sunrise or sunset.

Hour, day of the week and year

The idea is this: one day lasts 4 hours SL and a day in real life (RL) 24 hours, do so with only one division can extrapolate how many days have SL in relation to our day in RL, being six days the result (24/4 = 6), establishing these six days as a "week of SL".

The days of the week that we have in RL be adapted to these six days in SL, and Ananda Ghost proposing the following applications: the days from Monday to Friday normally remain, but on Saturday and Sunday form a new word (sixday) to designate it.

The periods of the day would be established as follows: sunrise, morning, midday, afternoon, sunset and night.

SL day of the week

The table where you can see these schedules would be as follows (with reference starting at 00:30 Pacific Time): NOTE: OF COURSE, ONE MORE HOUR WHEN SUMMER TIME.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Sixday
Sunrise	00:30 SLDT 00:30 PDT	00:30 SLDT 04:30 PDT	00:30 SLDT 08:30 PDT	00:30 SLDT 12:30 PDT	00:30 SLDT 16:30 PDT	00:30 SLDT 20:30 PDT
Morning	00:30 / 02:00 00:30 / 02:00	00:30 / 02:00 04:30 / 06:00	00:30 / 02:00 08:30 / 10:00	00:30 / 02:00 12:30 / 14:00	00:30 / 02:00 16:30 / 18:00	00:30 / 02:00 20:30 / 22:00
Midday	02:00 SLDT 02:00 PDT	02:00 SLDT 06:00 PDT	02:00 SLDT 10:00 PDT	02:00 SLDT 14:00 PDT	02:00 SLDT 18:00 PDT	02:00 SLDT 22:00 PDT
Afternoon	02:00 / 03:30 02:00 / 03:30	02:00 / 03:30 06:00 / 07:30	02:00 / 03:30 10:00 / 11:30	02:00 / 03:30 14:00 / 15:30	02:00 / 03:30 18:00 / 19:30	02:00 / 03:30 22:00 / 23:30
Sunset	03:30 SLDT 03:30 PDT	03:30 SLDT 07:30 PDT	03:30 SLDT 11:30 PDT	03:30 SLDT 15:30 PDT	03:30 SLDT 19:30 PDT	03:30 SLDT 23:30 PDT
Night	03:30 / 00:30 03:30 / 04:30	03:30 / 00:30 07:30 / 08:30	03:30 / 00:30 11:30 / 12:30	03:30 / 00:30 15:30 / 16:30	03:30 / 00:30 19:30 / 20:30	03:30 / 00:30 23:30 / 00:30

SL year

And last, the SL year: officially, SL was created on June 23, 2003, so we are now in the eleventh year of SL (to May 2015), and if we take this reference date as day, month and year "ZERO" (1 / Jan / 0), twelve months of 30 days, and December 30 as the Day of compensation (the remaining five or six days are adjusted to accommodate the new year SL, to the RL):

SL months

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Ago	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
23/06 22/07	23/07 22/08	23/08 22/09	23/09 22/10	23/10 22/11	23/11 22/12	23/12 22/01	23/01 22/02	23/02 22/03	23/03 22/04	23/04 22/05	23/05 22/06

Then, we are in November eleventh year of our virtual world, or our universe parallel (if you are so crazy as I).

And, at last, the HUD

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