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For the most part, at normal speed, there are about 1.25 real-time minutes to the hour or 1 minute 15 seconds. At ultra speed, there is about 13 seconds to the hour. At normal speed, a 24-hour time frame takes about 30 minutes in real time. In ultra speed, it only takes about 3 minutes for a 24 hour day.
Each dot on the Sims Clock is supposed to represent about 3 hours of time but that certainly is not precise and even though the adult Sim is supposed to leave for work at about 9 a.m. (the second yellow dot), and back at Noon (the third yellow dot), Sims are rarely only gone to work for three hours. So, either 9 a.m. is not really right at the second yellow dot, or, perhaps the Sim is leaving at 8:30 at the second yellow dot and returning at 12:30 p.m. well after the third yellow dot.... Or Something like that?
However you want to look at it, the time device seems to reflect 15 hours of sunlight and 9 hours of darkness every day. My guess is that the first yellow dot is 6 a.m. and the first blue dot is 9 p.m.
What you may start to discover is that your Sim will seem to want to go to bed later and later each day (just like real people) and one way that you can get them to wear out more quickly in any given day is to have them dig in the sand as soon as he/she arrives home from work, go swimming or go gather some rocks.
The comfier the bed, the less time your Sim will need to sleep. If you want your Sim to just catch some ZZZs during the day, he/she can always nap on a loveseat or sofa, or in a pile of leaves that you purchase from the Barter Mode.
