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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 1429154" data-attributes="member: 2629">Back in the mid 80s, when I was completely obsessed with creating a campaign world that didn't use English words for any measurement, I came up with the following system:Heartbeat is the basic measurement of time, an interval close to 1 second (slightly faster - I guess people measuring time were a bit excited)1 Moment is equal to 100 heartbeats (also called segments).100 moments is equal to a period.10 periods equal one day.There are 86,400 seconds to the day and 100,000 heartbeats to the day.It made time measurement rather easy in my game which was really important because we were using a segmented combat system (instead of 1 action per minute or per 6 seconds, we broke down activity into segments and people took actions that required X segments from which to recover ... for instance, a 1st level newbie swinging a sword in segment 13 would have a recovery time of 8 for the sword, so his next action would be in segment 21.) This system made tracking time a lot easier during long combats.</blockquote>