Hours, days, months... The time of Sirius.

[reavengitair]

Usually I would say that yea, its the same as normal.

However, isnt it a bit odd that 3 wars (kusari v bretonia, liberty v rheinland and the nomad war) can all come up in a timespan of just 17-18 years?

[Cellulanus]

However, isnt it a bit odd that 3 wars (kusari v bretonia, liberty v rheinland and the nomad war) can all come up in a timespan of just 17-18 years?

Not really, considering certain factors that I wont get into.

[Dejavu]

Keep it standard as it would get confusing for me!

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[AdamantineFist]

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.

Probably. After all, on New Berlin the day is something like half a NB year, isn't it? Be stupid to use Earth time on planets, but we'd probably keep it for the SMT.

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...

Me likes. Comp works perfectly here, as does the Honorverse analogy.

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[Cellulanus]

Probably. After all, on New Berlin the day is something like half a NB year, isn't it? Be stupid to use Earth time on planets, but we'd probably keep it for the SMT.

Actually, I think you are slightly off.

Berlin's a strange place. Night and day each last a year because of the planets extremely slow rotation rate. You're lucky -- we just emerged into daylight a month ago. People get crazy toward the end of the dark period.

Courtesy of of on New Berlins fine residents, note that they still use years and months, and since it clearly has nothing to do with the planets rotation (and the Dam'kivosh seem to have done something funny to planets so that they would stop orbiting) it is only natural to assume that they used Earth time.


Besides, most of New Berlin was built underground, meaning you can choose the length on night and day, further indicating that most Rheinland stations, if not all, would also use standard Earth time.

Sometimes we have to deal with demonstrations and riots, which has become an all-too-frequent occurrence in Berlin these days. It's easy to control them because so much of Berlin was built underground. We just seal the doors to the entire affected area.

Courtesy of another New Berlin residence.

[tansytansey]

Makes sense to me that Sirius still runs on the same time as Earth, even if they don't still live there. The origin of time.

Each planet would have it's own day/night based on spin cycles and months based on moon cycles. But each year would be relative to 365 Earth Days, or 8760 hours. Divide that numbe by the number of hours in a day on a planet and you have how many days of that planet = 1 Earth year.

Makes sense, or else how would you justify the year being 817 AS if each planet has its' own yearly cycle?

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