Talk:The Answer/@comment-27472704-20151227182627/@comment-4929778-20151228005208

Well the gems don't sleep. And they might have a different kind of concept of day and year compared to 365/24. Like how on Pluto one year is 100 years of our time. To gems, a human lifetime of 80 years could be like a week to them and 1,000 years could be like 17 years. They never specifiy how long it is. Maybe Pearl was just rounding or something. The war was 5,500 years ago exactly and took 1,000 years to fight. Although we don't know if the gems mean in earth years or gem years.