Without more context, this sounds like the people are out in the wilderness somewhere, with no calendar or clock, so it is hard to keep track of time.
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Carter Lee"The more time we spend out here, the harder it is to tell where one day ends and the next one begins"Perhaps they are at a pole, where the daylight can be 24 hours long at the solstice?