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[Stealthie]

Here's my attempt at a lore friendly explanation.

UTC is a reasonable time to use as a standard time for humans, even off-world, until we get to the point where the off-worlders are no longer dependent on Mission Control, and Earth, for everything.

At that time I would expect a new Galactic Time to be introduced. My bet is it would begin as UTC on some date, but after that, there would be no corrections for drift in the Earth's rotation, which is now handled by leap-seconds. Why would someone living on another world care about earth's axis anomalies? This is why the time does not match the Earth's solar time any more.

So Galactic Standard Time becomes independent of any planet including Earth. It also wouldn't have a day of week or month associated with it either, since months and seasons are planet specific. It would only be time in seconds since it was initiated. Though I do think it would still use a 24 hour "day" since that is built into our biology.

Erm, yes.

A nice theory but it still doesn't explain why it's lunchtime on real-world Earth when it's dawn on ED Earth.
That's not a "time zone" thing.
It's a "light from the sun shining on a planet's surface" thing.

And you can't blame it on "the future" either.
A thousand years of leap-seconds equates to..... 1000 seconds, which is less than 20 minutes.
We'd need to be at least 21,000 years into the future before leap-seconds could account for the discrepancy.
Or, possibly, 65,000 years.
I'm never sure which way it works.

 

[TheNavvie]

Though I do think it would still use a 24 hour "day" since that is built into our biology.

Without sunlight, our 24hr circadian rhythm does very strange things.

In space, potentially exposed to sunlight 24 hou... all the time, I imagine Galactic Standard Time would be decimal, while Earth was still adjusting GMT to keep the sun coming up in the morning.

 

[Crank Larson]

Without sunlight, our 24hr circadian rythm does very strange things.

It would do, as the body's natural rhythm is closer to 25 hours.

 

[TheNavvie]

It would do, as the body's natural rhythm is closer to 25 hours.

Didn't know that, but I know exposure to sunlight before sleeping or soon after waking affects how much sleep is "needed".

Further, space related, reading - https://www.space.com/18917-astronauts-insomnia-light-bulbs.html

 

[Stealthie]

In order for the 3303 earth to be in exact sync with the 2017 earth you're currently sitting on the diffrerence between then and now would have to be an exact number of earth days. However, the 1287 year difference between our current year and 3303 does not take the fact that one year is approx. 365.25 earth days into account.

1287 x 0.25 = 321.75

That would mean that in-game daylight would be approx. 18hrs out of sync with what's outside your window.

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Leap years are there because of how long it takes for the planet to orbit the sun.
They're nothing to do with how long it takes for the planet, itself, to rotate about it's own axis.

Think about it.
We have a leap-year every 4 years.
When was the last time you found yourself eating lunch just as the sun came up as a result of it being 3 years since the last leap-year?

Leap-seconds are what measures inconsistencies in planetary rotation and, as I said, at most there are only going to be around 21 minutes-worth of those between now and 3303.

 

[Alec Turner]

Leap years are there because of how long it takes for the planet to orbit the sun.
They're nothing to do with how long it takes for the planet, itself, to rotate about it's own axis.

Think about it.
We have a leap-year every 4 years.
When was the last time you found yourself eating lunch just as the sun came up as a result of it being 3 years since the last leap-year?

Leap-seconds are what measures inconsistencies in planetary rotation and, as I said, at most there are only going to be around 21 minutes-worth of those between now and 3303.

[where is it]

Balls! he's run rings around me logically. I'll get my coat.

 

[buellpilot]

The path we take...

[video=youtube;IJhgZBn-LHg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg[/video]

 

[Winterwalker]

I like the leap second idea but .. possibly? .. if GMT / UTC stays standard, then leap second adjustments would be made, so that 'at noon' the sun is at 90 degrees vertical? This means, in 3303 people will still get to school on time.

Could it be because the Earth's rotation is slowing, under gravity influence of the Moon?

As Earth's rotation changes .. this puts things out of synch? Caused by drag on the ocean floor by the tidal bulge, this lags behind the Moon, and .. unbelievably .. transfers Earth's angular momentum to the Moon (which is getting further away at ~ the speed fingernails grow). As the Earth's spin slows, a day gets longer and this process is expected to continue until eventualy one rotattion (one day on Earth) is the same as one lunar month (a single orbit of the Moon) .. at which point the two bodies, being tidally locked, sees no move movement of the ocean's tidal bulge, along the ocean floor, no lag, no drag and no more transfer of angular momentum. The Moon won't 'depart' therefroe, unless there's a nuclear explosion, a la Spae 1999 and rip to Martin Landau, but days do get longer)

Either that or it's a bug

 

[z993126]

Time-of-day, nothing! Check the SEASON on Earth! I swung by there the other day and Antarctica was in daylight, meaning the planet is six MONTHS out of phase.

(also, sorry if someone else in this thread already mentioned that, just glanced at the first and last pages)