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The Principality Of The Coral Islands
What Time Is It In The PCI?

The Principality Of The Coral Islands Has Introduced Metric Timekeeping

In a day there are 24 hours, with 60 minutes per hour, and 60 seconds per minute. The Principality Of The Coral Islands has moved beyond this complicated system in favour of metric timekeeping. The time reform does not apply to the amout of months in a year, weeks in a month, or days in a week. It only affects timekeeping within the day. In the PCI the day is divided into 10 chronometric units, or chrons. These units equal about four hours and fifteen minutes each. Each chron can then be divided into 10 decachrons (14 minutes), 100 centichrons, (1.4 minutes), or 1000 milichrons (0.14 minutes, or approximately 7 seconds). At sunrise on an equinox above the Parliament Buildings (Which can be generalised to sunrise anywhere in the Principality Of The Coral Islands) the time is 0 chrons, 0 centichrons (0:00). As the day progresses the time goes up. The next morning, just before or after sunrise (Depending on whether it was a spring or autumnal equinox) the time will be (0:00). Through this system it is unnecessary to make use of Daylight Savings Time Adjustments. The suffix "o'clock" is used in the PCI, as is the suffix "hours"; but "-hundred hours" is not. There is no difference between military and civilian timekeeping, as there is no such thing as "AM" or "PM" under the metric timekeeping system.

The song Dusk Dance is very popular in the PCI. The highly stylised dance that accompanies it is mesmerising. The version above is only a short selection of the entire piece. The Dusk Dance was written to be performed as the sun goes down, and therefore is long enough to accompany the entire time from when the Sun falls behind the trees on the distance and the time when the first constellation can be seen. You can see the Dusk Dance performed each day in the nation's capital city.

A Note On The Number Five: In the Principality Of The Coral Islands; the number five is represented by the Roman Numeral, 'V', not the Arabic '5'.

The PCI uses the metric system. If you would like to convert something from another system, there is a handy-dandy converter at this Swiss site: http://www.albireo.ch/temperatureconverter/.

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Shadows shrink as the sun rises on the Spring Equinox at Lake Salvation in High Province, not far from the Capital. The time is 0:28.