For 46 hours, 708 dancers stood, feeding off the energy of others and trying to find ways to pass the time -- except most never knew exactly what time it was.

A guideline at the Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon is for dancers to not have access to a watch or the time on a cell phone. However, most dancers said by examining the size of the crowd, they had a pretty good idea of the time, though the hours may have started to blur together as the weekend progressed.

At 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, dancer Sarah Swaintek said her "rough estimate" of time was about 3 or 3:30 a.m. "You can gauge by the crowd," she said.

Even though her time guess wasn't too far off, Swaintek said she was doing anything she could to avoid learning the exact time. She had her cell phone with her, but she covered the time with ladybug stickers.

Stephanie Finkelstein, another dancer, judged the time by how many times the line dance was performed.

Other dancers, such as Jared Lipton, said they had no idea of the time. He hid the time on his cell phone with Penn State stickers.

From the floor, dancers often could see light coming in through the portals. But even with light streaming through, there is less light than there was in Rec Hall, Ashley Metz, a 2005 dancer said.

"[The light is] much less noticeable -- it's good for the dancers," Metz said as she massaged her friend, dancer Jamie Weiler.

Most dancers said they didn't want to know the time, but dancer Michelle Becker was an exception. She had her cell phone -- with the time uncovered. "I figure you're gonna know [the time] anyways," Becker said. Dancers knew it was evening when they didn't see light through the portals, but by that point they were a little unsure about their time judgments.

The only thing dancer Allison Hemphill knew about the time on Saturday evening was that "it's dark out." Still, her biological clock must have been working, because her time guess of 6 p.m. was correct.

While dancer Christine Dougherty said she could dance "forever," most dancers, such as Lauren Wilke, said they could only make it "till it's over," and some weren't even sure they would have been able to make it 48 hours, as it was in Rec Hall last year.

Regardless of the time, dancer Collin Hayes said, "I could dance until we find a cure."