(06-07-2013, 09:40 AM)Omega472 Wrote: I'm going to have to say 819 A.S.
Sorry for all of you who use assume the same calender is implemented from ours, but as far as I can tell it would seem to use a different system. And I'm not sure if any of you noticed, but our year is based around the sun, AKA it is a measurement for SOL. So how in the world would you expect this to be practical in Sirius? I mean, sure, you could simply try extremely hard to keep track of time, but that's unreliable. There is no way of ACTUALLY telling time aside from common knowledge. There obviously is some sort of calender system, as time's progressed fairly regularly to my knowledge, but again, it's doubtful that it falls under the same type of measurement as ours, as many of you have pointed out that 4.85 lasted two years(? I wasn't around for this myself). So, this points to a separate calender from ours, which is something I've already pointed out a flaw in.
So yeah. That's why I'm going with 819 A.S. Take it or leave it.
They could easily use a version of what we do now, just making sure that 1 year = however many seconds instead of a literal revolution.
Alternately, it may be the nomads' fault that the year is wacky. Damn nomads.