Traditional Time System

Upon traditional time system, originated in China, 12 animals are assigned to years and days periodically and assigned to 12 traditional hours a day. (One traditional hour is today's two hours.) East Asian countries had adopted this system as their standard until mid-19th century. As for "year", in particular, even today people use this system besides today's system. Below are indicated the converted years of recent cycle and today's hours.

	Animal	Year	Hours
	Mouse/Rat	2008	11pm-1am
	Cow/Bull	2009	1am-3am
	Tiger	2010	3am-5am
	Rabbit	2011	5am-7am
	Dragon(*)	2012	7am-9am
	Serpentine	2013	9am-11am
	Horse	2014	11am-1pm
	Sheep	2015	1pm-3pm
	Monkey	2016	3pm-5pm
	Hen/Cock	2017	5pm-7pm
	Dog	2018	7pm-9pm
	Wild Boar	2019	9pm-11pm

The Dragon had never existed actually, but it had been an imaginary animal as symbol of Chinese Emperors.