Time in BatMUD NG

The time in BatMUD progresses in "ticks", there is a kind of a world clock / heartbeat that advances on mostly regular intervals, with certain exceptions:

• Gametime does not progress during gamelag (e.g. high load, this does NOT mean network lag.).
• Gametime does not progress during reboot or other downtime / maintenance when the game is not running.

The following conversion table shows some equivalences between real world time and gametime:

Year and months

• There are 10 months per BatYear: Arienle, Teliminus, Lorien, Ysaril, Karmina, Ingot, Alystos, Gettrellyn, Rozgayn and Blayhrr.
• Each month has 28 days and lasts approximately (28d * 24h * 5min/h) / (24h * 60min) = 2 days and 8 hours of real world time.
• Year is thus 280 days aka 23 days and 8 hours of real world time.

Seasons

Each continent has its own climate and cycle of seasons, and the durations of each season (winter, spring, summer, autumn) differ between continents. Furnachia, Laenor and Desolathya have similar seasons, while Rothikgen has longest winter and Lucentium has longest summer.

However, due to bugs in the implementation and also the fact that the change of season practically only happens during game reboot after which the rooms get reloaded, the actual season is unpredictable during the transition periods. Some of the variation has been marked with red background in table below, but variance due to reboot "lag" cannot be easily represented.

Seasons per continent