Talk:Day-Night Cycle/@comment-25779477-20150130234212/@comment-26318242-20151018033414

In realistic terms, this simply means that the planet that the Don't Starve world is on spins very fast and makes one revolution around itself every 8 minutes. This causes days to be so short.

Of course this is just a comparison to real life science. In the real world everything is obviously different, starting with the fact that the change from night to day is not instant. The actual reason why days are 8 minutes long in DS is to make the game interesting, since you wouldn't want to spend 8-12 actual hours waiting for it to turn to day.