Talk:Equestria/@comment-24.129.144.118-20110825082638

I removed the part in the trivia about the theory that Equestria experiences a 16-hour day. Grounds for this come from some research, particularly in the episode "Owl's Well That Ends Well". In the episode, when Spike oversleeps, he mentions that it's already ten o'clock. The hands on the clock he holds up are concurrent with the ten o'clock hour positions of the hands of a real-world clock. Even if each hash mark represents half an hour, or two hours (four hours would be too many, as there are too many hash marks), the hands of the clock would be in the wrong positions for both.

Additionally, though the Ponyville town clock also has eight hash marks, in "A Bird in the Hoof", the hands of the clock are in the four o'clock position at between east-southeast and southeast by east. The clock also chimes four times distinctively, indicating four o'clock.

Evidently, the only thing off about Equestria's sense of time is how they mark their clocks. It should also be noted that this method of marking clocks is inconsistent, as the clock in Twilight's bedroom has four hash marks --one at each cardinal point.