Interesting paper on the history of time keeping and uncoupling GPS/UTC time from the solar calendar.
Certainly the soalr system in EP uses some sort of coordinated time which must necessarily be divorced from any given local day / year.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1106/1106.3141.pdf
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Unlinking time from celestial bodies
Tue, 2011-06-28 19:28
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puke
Unlinking time from celestial bodies
Tue, 2011-06-28 19:54
#2
The Green Slime
Re: Unlinking time from celestial bodies
A thread a while back about the mystery of the current date in EP got me thinking about this - that people would still be living by clocks and calenders tailored to the rotation of a home planet now tragically lost forevermore just doesn't make sense IMO. I think it would be a major faux pas to publicly refer to old Earth time, and perhaps the only rightful context for its use would be as part of remembrance ceremonies and the like. Perhaps you can always tell a Reclaimer by the sentimental 12 hour clocks they keep like simple shrines in their homes/simspaces.
Quite what the replacement time system might be, I couldn't even hazard a guess. Hence I'd better RTFA.
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Wed, 2011-06-29 03:35
#3
Arenamontanus
Re: Unlinking time from celestial bodies
With good software and muses you never need to see the 'raw' time, in whatever format it is stored, just the time that is suitable for your local habitat and culture. When talking to others it gets converted. A bit like how software today is starting to handle that every time should be labeled by time zone it is linked to (I travel a lot, and keeping a calendar when trains and flights span three timezones can be tricky).
Love the idea that Earth time is a faux pas - that is a nice way of explaining the shift. There are going to be some people (especially religious ones) who refuse to avoid mentioning dates since Christ or the hegira, but that is easily fixed with an AR patch over them.
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Wed, 2011-06-29 10:17
#4
nezumi.hebereke
Re: Unlinking time from celestial bodies
I disagree. Do people who are refugees from a country decide it's a faux pas to speak in their native language, or celebrate their native holidays? Of course not. In fact, quite to the contrary. They cling to what they have left. And since 90% of the population are recent refugees, it makes sense they would prefer to stick with what they're comfortable with.
Meanwhile, the remaining 10% almost all worked for Earth-based corporations who paid to put them up in space, so they too would work on terrestrial clocks and calendars. If the boss says your production report is due on the second week of each month, you're going to be mentally operating on a terran calendar.
And since the only other planet with a real, relevant calendar is Mars, most of the population won't have anything else to supplant the terran calendar/clock anyway.
Maybe in a few decades things will reorient (probably around Mars), but we aren't there yet. We're still pulling our pants up from around our ankles.