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*** Everything a midnighter touches stops being frozen in time, so wind-up watches should work.
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*** Everything Most things that a midnighter touches (excepting more complicated chemical reactions, like fire, and electrically based items, like digital watches and flashlights) stops being frozen in time, so wind-up watches should work.
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** Midnighters and darklings are subject to special rules (magic, basically) which let them function without apparent problems in the blue time, which explains why they stay warm. The fact that midnighters can touch small things (coins, leaves, rain) that were caught in mid-fall and can make them move again means that these rules extend to the parts of the world they influence. Flame bringers presumably have a larger sphere of influence, which is why they can make machines and such work.
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** It's stated that the secret hour passes in a single instant, not in the entire minute between 12:00 and 12:01. Although, not every clock will ''say'' exactly midnight because not everyone's clocks are set perfectly to one another.
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* The Blue Time exists between midnight and 12:01, and time is frozen for an hour...which shouldn't happen because 60 seconds pass between 12:00 and 12:01, so why would time completely freeze? If anything, time would keep going, but everyone else would move slowly compared to the midnighters, who are experiencing more time. If there was to be an extra hour, than it wouldn't be between one minute and another, it would just BE, and no normal clock (unaffected by the midnighters) would show any passage of time, whether it be a minute, a second, or a millisecond, once the Blue Time ended.
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** I would think this, as well as the two previous points could be explained by flipping the causation. If we assume that the blue time was at one point accessible from other places (either it shrank over time, since it is mentioned to be spreading outward at the end of the series, or there are simply other places on the planet where it happens), then it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to claim that the use of hours, the development of latitude and longitude, and the "unlucky thirteen" beliefs came, in part, from the blue time. Babylonians midnighters develop a system of time that fits with the blue time, beliefs in the badluck of thirteen came from it's relation to darklings... it's not a very likely explanation, but it is possible.
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** I would think this, as well as the two previous points could be explained by flipping the causation. If we assume that the blue time was at one point accessible from other places (either it shrank over time, since it is mentioned to be spreading outward at the end of the series, or there are simply other places on the planet where it happens), then it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to claim that the use of hours, the development of latitude and longitude, and the "unlucky thirteen" beliefs came, in part, from the blue time. Babylonians midnighters develop a system of time that fits with the blue time, beliefs in the badluck of thirteen came from it's relation to darklings... it's not a very likely explanation, but it is possible. possible.
**It's possible the darklings decided to take exactly one hour because it's 12x12x25 seconds (leaving us with 12x12x12x50 seconds, and creating a 24:1 ratio) because those were the types of numbers that they could mentally deal with. Though nothing says the base unit for time needs to be seconds.
**It's possible the darklings decided to take exactly one hour because it's 12x12x25 seconds (leaving us with 12x12x12x50 seconds, and creating a 24:1 ratio) because those were the types of numbers that they could mentally deal with. Though nothing says the base unit for time needs to be seconds.
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** I would think this, as well as the two previous points could be explained by flipping the causation. If we assume that the blue time was at one point accessible from other places (either it shrank over time, since it is mentioned to be spreading outward at the end of the series, or there are simply other places on the planet where it happens), then it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to claim that the use of hours, the development of latitude and longitude, and the "unlucky thirteen" beliefs came, in part, from the blue time. Babylonians midnighters develop a system of time that fits with the blue time, beliefs in the badluck of thirteen came from it's relation to darklings... it's not a very likely explanation, but it is possible.
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*** Alternatively, it could be either a "blend in" thing - she'd stand out if she was advanced more than one grade level - or else the city's/school's policy that no student can be more than one grade level up in any class.
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*** Everything a midnighter touches stops being frozen in time, so wind-up watches should work.
