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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3657219" data-attributes="member: 41321">Unless they have some obvious thing that provides them with a concept of time (patterns of water - not dripping, but tide-type flows - or the time-pillar thing from the drow city in the Forgotten Realms), I think I'd go with the idea that they do not have a sense of time.  It would make them more alien (and harder to roleplay, but more interesting at the same time, IMO).Like der_kluge said, individuals would probably just sleep when they were tired and everyone would just sorta do their own thing whenever they wanted.  They'd probably have a very simple hunter-gatherer culture that doesn't require coordinating times or anything like that, and they'd probably be a very relaxed people because they have no concept of rushing to get things done on time (or similar stress-producing ideas).If you don't want them to be that alien or want them to have a sense of time for some other reason then you'd have to introduce something that provides them with a time period.  You could have it be something magical, like a rock that heats up during the day and cools down at night, or something natural, like the cycles of animals or maybe a pool that fills up during the night and drains during the day.If you want to go that way, it might be easier to come up with a calendar first, then arrange natural or magical phenomena for them to base that calendar off of.</blockquote>