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About

tenpo ko (toki pona for “elemental time”) was invented by marzka of marzka.cafe and Joop Kiefte. The idea is to split up the 24 hour clock into 4 constant six hour blocks relative to UTC. This creates a simple universal time that is easy to remember and compare across timezones.

Times:

• 🔥 fire / tenpo seli = 00-06 utc
• ☁️ air / tenpo kon = 06-12 utc
• 💧 water / tenpo telo = 12-18 utc
• 🌱 earth / tenpo ma = 18-24 utc

So for me, I know roughly that my mornings are water and my afternoons are earth. If it's half past fire, I should start getting ready for bed. And I generally sleep through air.

More reading:

• https://marzka.cafe/time/
• https://hora.net.br/#en
• https://tenpopona.neocities.org/
• https://etime.neocities.org/
• https://peakd.com/@lapingvino/a-story-of-universal-time
• desktop application by piusbird