Utopia Time

== Date equivalents and format ==
 1 Utopian Day = 1 Hour
 1 Utopian Month = 1 Day
 1 Utopian Year = 1 Week
Dates in game are presented in Month - Day - Year order, for example:
* February 5 of YR4
== Ages ==
Utopia runs in sequential rounds called ages. At the end of an Age the game server is reset and all accounts are reset to their initial states to give players a fresh start and the competition begins again. 
Each age in Utopia consists of Days, Months and Years. Before an age begins, there is also a Freeze time where the kingdom can plan and reset provinces. The Age starts at January 1, Year 0 with Protection where provinces cannot interact with each other for 24 Utopian Days (24 hours in real life), until February 1, Year 0. 
Ages vary in length and have tended to run between 8 - 14 Utopian Years.
== Utopian Years ==
One Year in Utopia is made of seven Utopian Months and equivalent to a week in real life. 
== Utopian Months ==
Utopian Months consist of 24 days, each equivalent to an hour in the real world. The Utopian Months change at 18:00 GMT+0 timezone.
== Utopian Days aka 'ticks' ==
The start of each Utopian Day is called a tick. Time in Utopia is synchronized with time in real world. Each Utopian Day begins in XX:00. 
The term 'Tick' refers to the time between Utopian Days where the server updates.
During the tick mana and stealth recover, peasants are born, armies and wizards are trained, inhabitants consume bushels and money, banks emit gold coins, etc. Some Magic spells affect what happens at the ticks they are active. 
The order of operations for each Tick, has been speculated for many years. The official Utopia Wiki orders them as:
* Buildings are built first at the beginning of the tick (which affects the following operations)
* Income is generated
* Food is generated
* Peasant growth
* Wizard growth
* Drafting occurs
* Units die from Meteors
Questions:
* Does "-" count as a tick for Patriotism or not (effectively, it seems to be the case that a spell that says 18 days is then really 19, which is kind of disorienting).
Some notes in this forum post: http://forums.utopia-game.com/showthread.php?639982-A-Question-About-Ticks-amp-Buildings