Timeline for How do date/time systems work for an entire solar system?
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| Mar 26, 2017 at 0:25 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt | A 32 hour clock seems more reasonable... or is that the developer in me talking? :) | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 15:14 | answer | added | Ryan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 1:50 | comment | added | Durakken | I would argue a roughly 24 hour clock will be standard. if I were to try to make a universal clock I'd go with 25 hour long days because that's roughly the speed at which most planets that would fall into liveable fall into, between 20 and 30 hours days and then I'd use the SI second, but all species will likely go with a 24 hour clock and as such the standard second will likely fit between a 20 and 30 hour hour length... but whatevs ^.^ | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 1:27 | comment | added | user21719 | I seem to recall reading a book where different worlds had different times, though not like time zones. I remember being really confused at the time why this would be the case, but suddenly reading your post it just clicked that each planet was using time in respect to their own planets, which don't necessarily each rotate at the same speed. Maybe you could implement something similar, but that would require a different watch for each planet. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 1:15 | answer | added | NtsDK | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 22:19 | answer | added | Schwern | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 20:37 | answer | added | pluckedkiwi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 19:56 | comment | added | Dan Smolinske | On top of the other issues brought up here, keep in mind that time runs at slightly different rates depending on how deep you are in a gravity well. This means that even after adjusting for relatively, a clock running at Earth won't match a clock on Jupiter, and neither will match one running around Alpha Centauri. So it's not as simple as picking units as a reference - you also must pick a single location (down to a place on a planet) as your absolute time reference, and adjust all other clocks to that. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 19:43 | answer | added | Rozwel | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 11:31 | answer | added | Rex Kerr | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 17:19 | answer | added | mechalynx | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 17:01 | history | asked | House | CC BY-SA 3.0 |