Keeping Time

[rgrove0172]

Do we assume that the standard Earth calendar is used throughout known space? Do ships in space use this calendar? What about local calendars on colony worlds? Their days are different, years different etc. Do they use a local clock or do they conform to the standard?

 

[LemnOc]

Do we assume that the standard Earth calendar is used throughout known space? Do ships in space use this calendar? What about local calendars on colony worlds? Their days are different, years different etc. Do they use a local clock or do they conform to the standard?

I imagine the pulsar map fixes the universal standard clock throughout known space, down to femtoseconds... or maybe even Planck time. Worlds keep local time, but I can imagine a whole series of clocks and whatnot showing times at the various star bases, just like airports today.

 

[McPerth]

My guess is that while most people works on a schedule according to local time (at least on non tidal locked planets) as it's easier for them to follow the local day, there's a standard time to keep track of the thins, based on the standard terran day (and probably, out of tradition, Zulu time).

On tidal locked planets , space stations. space/starships, underground facilities (and in generla anywhere there's no day/night cycle), my guess is time is kept following standard time.

 

[aramis]

My guess is that while most people works on a schedule according to local time (at least on non tidal locked planets) as it's easier for them to follow the local day, there's a standard time to keep track of the thins, based on the standard terran day (and probably, out of tradition, Zulu time).

On tidal locked planets , space stations. space/starships, underground facilities (and in generla anywhere there's no day/night cycle), my guess is time is kept following standard time.

Same here. Imperial holidays are on the Imperial Calendar, tho'.