Time

Using the default settings, an in-game Day-Night Cycle or "day" has sixteen 30-second segments and lasts 8 real-world minutes. Seasons have different lengths: Summer and Winter each last 15 days, Autumn and Spring last 20, making an in-game year 70 in-game days or 9 1/3 real-world hours.
Game Unit 	Game Time 	Real Time
Segment 	1/16 day 	30 sec
Day 	16 segments	8 min
Winter/Summer	15 days 	2 hrs
Autumn/Spring	20 days 	2 hrs 40 min
Year 	70 days 	9 hrs 20 min
Recurring processes in the game tend to happen every second, 10 seconds, or day.
See also Tile for distance measurement.