Tag: time-keeping

42 Standardisation of Time in a FTL Universe 2016-10-17T07:50:42.737

42 How do you tell time on a world with 9-year days? 2017-02-27T15:49:05.507

41 What are some things to keep in mind when designing a calendar? 2014-10-13T11:33:38.620

39 A world without natural time measures 2017-02-22T11:10:52.810

37 How would people tell time if it was always day? 2016-01-05T14:43:52.443

33 What's an astronomical event which happened about 10,000 years ago, which humans could have noticed? 2018-12-20T19:59:02.477

30 Creating a realistic timekeeping system for a fantasy world 2016-03-04T16:05:53.510

24 On a planet without seasons, how would people track years? 2014-10-15T22:52:04.210

24 What do Martians use for months and weeks? 2017-12-20T01:18:42.090

23 If clock and calendar was reinvented with today's knowledge, what could they look like? 2016-04-01T00:16:12.477

22 How can I create original holidays for my world? 2015-11-02T01:48:36.737

20 How would rogue planet civilization track the passage of time? 2014-10-14T18:38:38.880

17 How do date/time systems work for an entire solar system? 2014-10-14T17:01:12.680

17 What would a Martian calendar look like? 2015-01-14T20:23:34.077

17 How to tell someone they have travelled in time, by gesturing? 2017-09-29T11:48:26.613

17 Stealing day(s) from my post-apoc bunker society 2017-10-20T13:56:24.887

15 How can a floral clock be made accurate enough to replace normal timekeeping? 2016-03-08T09:51:41.030

15 Gregorian Calendar and dates before its implementation - how to correctly place an event before 1582? 2017-03-23T18:19:14.007

15 What calendar would the Saturn nation use? 2019-05-06T05:06:29.383

14 How would timezones work on a planet 100 times the size of our Earth 2019-08-12T12:08:20.517

13 What would the current period of history be called in the future? 2018-11-26T05:23:58.597

12 Acceptable time count 2017-06-14T14:21:58.487

12 How to calculate hour angle of a moon? 2018-03-03T00:25:55.503

10 What calendar or time cycle would an underground civilization use? 2017-05-07T21:35:22.720

10 How would dwarves tell time (calendar) 2018-07-06T23:43:42.883

9 What would a Christian calendar look like? 2015-12-29T12:39:37.117

9 Galactic Calendar System 2018-02-03T00:27:13.077

9 Explanations for a Uniform calendar in most of the world 2018-09-12T21:24:55.253

8 How do calendar systems arise? How would this affect a civilization's time-keeping if originating on the moon of a gas giant? 2016-09-29T01:53:25.487

8 Year marking astronomical event with extreme perihelion precession 2017-12-27T09:33:16.913

8 An alien race without the concept of "time" 2020-01-11T20:50:26.263

7 Reconciling Polar Calendars 2016-03-09T02:23:58.957

7 Different ways geographically distant cultures might measure time? 2016-08-23T03:24:11.553

7 Restoring the current date based on ~100yr old sources 2017-05-19T23:23:17.867

7 How would a Lunar Calendar be set up with 2 moons? 2018-02-07T00:23:19.350

7 What's the overlapping calendar of two different lunar cycles 2019-06-29T06:03:16.190

7 What would it take to make a scientific second equal exactly one traditional second? 2019-11-21T18:14:24.520

6 My BIG World Needs More Suns 2016-03-14T20:11:46.860

6 How would my dwarves tell time underground? 2016-08-26T23:12:33.603

6 How far can civilization go without inventing the calendar? 2018-08-11T12:28:58.443

6 How to distinguish the different phases of the day when the sun rises and sets multiple times? 2018-08-19T05:15:54.810

5 Timekeeping Systems on a Habitable Moon 2016-09-30T19:52:37.503

5 The perception of time in a tidally-locked planet 2017-09-25T03:23:18.497

5 How do I calculate solar altitude and hour angle from the surface of another planet? 2018-03-01T17:00:08.180

5 A Roman-technology clock run by slaves - how to make it accurate 2019-01-03T15:22:26.600

5 Universal calendar creation for intergalactic empire 2019-09-04T12:07:04.613

4 What would a lunar calendar look like? 2015-01-16T19:35:06.573

4 How do merpeople track time undersea? 2015-06-10T23:36:47.547

4 Measure time with longer days? 2016-03-14T14:06:30.783

4 Can a species without uniform brain function time survive? 2017-03-06T05:58:10.900

4 How would you make a universal measurement of time? 2018-03-02T02:07:52.133

4 What cultural nuances and customs might a medieval, largely agrarian society with a strict caste system have? 2019-05-08T16:09:58.690

4 Born and raised on a world with longer days and years - would it impact life expectancy 2019-07-11T06:11:45.883

3 What would a solar empire's calendar look like? 2016-07-27T00:21:42.990

3 Would people living on different ringworlds around the same star measure time differently? 2016-09-08T20:37:07.340

3 Accuracy of timekeeping based on the age of Earth 2016-12-04T03:21:59.407

2 Should the Spring Equinox be New Year's Day? 2016-03-13T19:22:03.017

2 Apocalypse shelter with date jumping around 2017-01-25T21:28:13.127

2 Binary star system, What time is it? 2017-09-29T22:52:42.777

2 How would someone keep time on Mars? 2018-05-16T21:21:13.423

2 I'm inventing a new calendar. What are good criteria for the choices of first day, first year, and first hour? 2019-06-07T14:03:06.513

2 How can I do so that the four seasons last six months instead of three months? 2019-10-29T19:08:09.080

1 Accurately Measuring Sidereal Years For Calculating Tropical Year 2015-08-27T22:33:51.553

1 Multiple moons orbiting a gas giant: How would I calculate how long it appears for a closer moon to orbit the planet from a further-out moon? 2016-10-28T21:00:42.760

1 would people be happier if we got rid of Thursday and had 6 day weeks? 2017-03-22T02:54:19.500

1 What kind of cultures would develop on a moon of a gas giant? 2017-09-09T14:55:48.983

1 How to measure time outside of Earth? 2018-05-21T06:05:14.750

1 time precision of system logs 2019-11-12T00:55:42.403

1 Lifespan of Plutonians 2020-02-21T05:11:34.030

0 Time-keeping system throughout a galaxy? 2018-06-14T17:40:13.680

0 What would our calendars be like with no astronomical cycles? 2018-08-20T19:05:04.013

-1 How survivors should measure time on tidal locked planet? 2016-09-26T20:43:53.163

-1 Can a planet have half the orbit and rotation times of Earth? 2017-05-26T18:12:21.440

-2 The 372-Day Calendar 2017-09-13T21:47:37.230

-2 How does one calculate the length of a planet's solar year? 2018-05-20T20:17:38.383

-2 How could someone dismantle Mother's Day in the United States? 2019-05-12T21:46:41.873

-4 Is time management obsolete? 2017-03-22T10:59:35.120