' Wrote: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?

' Wrote: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.

' Wrote: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...

' Wrote: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.

Quote: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.

Quote: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.