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Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - William Frederick Cody - 07-03-2009
' Wrote:[size=12]Actually, the 24 Hour period came about because that is how long it took for our little blue planet to orbit around the sun.*cough* That is one year, around the sun. Blue planets rotation around itself is making a day!
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - Etaphreven - 07-03-2009
From an RP standpoint, I highly doubt that the population of a planet in Sirius uses Earth days, weeks, etc. When two persons from different planets are talking, however, it's only logical that they use a common way of measuring time (i.e.: Earth time measures). Would be odd if someone on Manhattan said to another guy on the planet "Meet you in two days.", and by that mean 48 hours, when a day actually lasts (for example) 30 Earth hours on the planet. Then again, time is relative, so that person could just refer to 48 hours, and not 2 Manhattan days.
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - teschy - 07-03-2009
It would be a tad hard to set a time for the entire Sirius sector, mainly due to various space anomalies that distort the time-space continuum (black-holes, wormholes, etc.). But we do have Sirian years, so I believe some of the time measurement is generalized.
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - ugliestmoose - 07-03-2009
Here's how I see it:
1) On each planet they keep their own time in accordance with their orbit and rotation around their sun(s). The vast majority of people live on planets and it wouldn't be so convenient for them to adopt a "one size fits all" system of time.
2) For interplanetary dealings, There's a unified "Sirius Mean Time" that's agreed upon galaxy-wide and is useful primarily to the large corporations who conduct business all over the place.
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - William Frederick Cody - 07-03-2009
' Wrote:Here's how I see it:Yes and yes. And maybe the "Sirius Mean Time" is that old earth related timing. If there was a "Solar System Main Time", before the sleeper ships started, that time counting system may overcome sirius, because people like to stick on their habits.
1) On each planet they keep their own time in accordance with their orbit and rotation around their sun(s). The vast majority of people live on planets and it wouldn't be so convenient for them to adopt a "one size fits all" system of time.
2) For interplanetary dealings, There's a unified "Sirius Mean Time" that's agreed upon galaxy-wide and is useful primarily to the large corporations who conduct business all over the place.
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - Elvin - 07-03-2009
Time different for each planet, that would be bad... Big planet such as Manhattan would be in year 817, while some small planets can already have year 830 or more....
So all in all, I guess noone will shoot me when I use our times/days/moths in stories etc, as a Sirius-wide timeline... I think. Right. *cough*
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - Shagohad - 07-04-2009
I'd imagine everything runs on Zulu time in deep space.
Planets would hold their own time.
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - Primus Avatar - 07-04-2009
Like in any good American movie, all the characters in freelancer speak English and measure everything based on Manhattan time.
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - Cellulanus - 07-04-2009
' Wrote:From an RP standpoint, I highly doubt that the population of a planet in Sirius uses Earth days, weeks, etc. When two persons from different planets are talking, however, it's only logical that they use a common way of measuring time (i.e.: Earth time measures). Would be odd if someone on Manhattan said to another guy on the planet "Meet you in two days.", and by that mean 48 hours, when a day actually lasts (for example) 30 Earth hours on the planet. Then again, time is relative, so that person could just refer to 48 hours, and not 2 Manhattan days.
They defiantly use Earth time on Planet NB, since if you went by the 360 degree measure, 1 day=1 year.
Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius. - Agmen of Eladesor - 07-04-2009
It's probably like in the Honorverse (thanks, David Weber) - where someone may be 20 Manticore years old - but that would translate out to something like 35 T (for Terra, of course) years old.
While you could go the Freehold way (courtesy of Michael Z Williamson, ALSO a great author) and divide each day up - you're still stuck with the minor detail that all scientific measurement is based upon the second. So that standard probably has to stay.
That's when you throw in something like Div or Comp - where you compensate by having a period that's not part of the clock. Say your planet has a 25 hour rotation - you maintain the basic 24 hours, and then you have Comp fall between 12:00 pm and 12:01 am. An extra hour of sleep or devotions...