Atlantica Online does not use real time, but it's own game time (for most things). Briefly, every day in Atlantica Time is a month in real time. So: * 1 day in-game time is 30 days (1 month) of real time. * 1 hour in-game time is 1.25 days (30 hours) real time. * 1 minute in-game time is 1/2 hour of real time. Months mostly matter for bidding on towns, which you can do once a month in game time (every 12 days on real time). In-game time stops during maintenance so that town bids cannot expire during maintenance and the guild being outbid gets a chance to counter.