Living on another planet for a while...

[Rubycon]

How do you keep time?
Do you have to devise a system based on solar days like people do on Earth?

 

[xanis]

I'd imagine that you'd have to come up with your own system based on solar days. You might wind up with 40-hour days and 500 day years, but hey, that's what you get for living on another planet.

 

[Matthiasa]

I would keep everything the same basicly a year would still be about 8766 hours, though the days would be off odd hour lengths and then their would have be an x planet year as well.
The reason for that is doing otherwise would mess up communications between this planet and that one.

 

[lxskllr]

Depends on what your needs are. I don't see a reason to keep time in the first place. Assuming you had to communicate with earth, GMT should work as well as any system.

 

[adlep]

How do you keep time?
Do you have to devise a system based on solar days like people do on Earth?

Depends from which type of a galactic civilization you belong to.

 

[Rubycon]

You have to keep time to preserve sanity.

 

[sdifox]

2 ways to go, keep earth time, or adapt to local time

 

[Rubycon]

Most would probably be comfortable with Earth time. If the photoperiod is longer/shorter it would not matter as their living quarters would provide the comfortable environment to keep the biological clock happy. :hmm:

 

[dahunan]

Darn... Is there a way to communicate with others without having to have some method to define time? But what is time?

Would be great to only have to deal with our biological/circadian rhythm clocks

 

[Perknose]

Most would probably be comfortable with Earth time. If the photoperiod is longer/shorter it would not matter as their living quarters would provide the comfortable environment to keep the biological clock happy. :hmm:

Studies of people in isolation without day/night clues have shown that we tend to naturally lengthen our circadian rhythms.

So I might just have to get myself some sort of ~15hr "Planet Gorpulax" watch.

Say about 15pm ish, then? It's full moons tonight! :awe:

 

[Leros]

If the local day was 30 hours long or something, I could adapt to that. In fact, it sounds ideal.

 

[DrPizza]

Well, duh, when we terraform another planet, we'll just spin it faster or slower to match earth's day.

 

[moshquerade]

Can I join you?

Time would have no meaning.

 

[Sea Moose]

actually if the time is set wrong on your pc. Msn doesnt work.

 

[Sea Moose]

Can I join you?

Time would have no meaning.

intergalatic mud wrestling bat man!

 

[Fritzo]

It would have to be local based in order to be useful. 18:00 hrs is going to be useless if that means noon locally one day and the middle of the night two days later.

 

[Numenorean]

Take a watch.

 

[pontifex]

How do you keep time?
Do you have to devise a system based on solar days like people do on Earth?

OMG! Rubycon is asking a question and not answering one!?!?!? This has to be a milestone in ATOT history!

 

[Crono]

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights
In cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.

Or maybe love :wub:

Practically speaking, I would go lunar for months, solar for years.

 

[darkxshade]

If the local day was 30 hours long or something, I could adapt to that. In fact, it sounds ideal.

Are you saying you could adjust your lifespan to the same amount of years on a 24 hour day?

 

[RaistlinZ]

Time is only relevant to people who have to go to work.

I'd imagine if I'm chillin' on another planet I won't be doing the 9 to 5 thang. Time would be irrevelvant.

 

[Scouzer]

I suspect if this ever comes up they'll go by Zulu time, just like aviation.

 

[Rubycon]

GMT is used by the scientific community and navigation because if you know where you are, you know what time it is.

I'm all for abolishing time zones and especially that silly thing called DST.

Can you believe some tard actually claimed the new DST rule would contribute to global warming because they claimed the extra sunlight would heat the ground longer? :biggrin:

Anyhow, time is completely relevant. People age and there's no stopping that. You cannot beat the clock no matter where you go. Your heart rate is a timeslice and I suppose you could rate a person's MTBF in heartbeats although nobody would want to hear THAT.

 

[Scouzer]

GMT is used by the scientific community and navigation because if you know where you are, you know what time it is.

I'm all for abolishing time zones and especially that silly thing called DST.

Can you believe some tard actually claimed the new DST rule would contribute to global warming because they claimed the extra sunlight would heat the ground longer? :biggrin:

Anyhow, time is completely relevant. People age and there's no stopping that. You cannot beat the cock no matter where you go. Your heart rate is a timeslice and I suppose you could rate a person's MTBF in heartbeats although nobody would want to hear THAT.

Sigged.

 

[rasczak]

Sigged.

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