Never see any mention of it, but my guess is there are time zones in the Imperium just as there are on worlds within it. Considering the distances, these would count in days, maybe weeks? I never thought about the location of the Core, but is it really central to the 3I?
What is the distance from Core to furthest Imperium system?

I actually wonder if Time will still exist in the shape of the consept as we know it.
It isn't particularly useful in contemporary cities already.

On 17 February 2016 at 15:15, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

On 17 February 2016 at 10:36, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:
Synchronise planetary orbits also?

The Imperium ignores individual planetary time, clocking everything on Sylean (e.g. Imperial) time. This drives the locals crazy, of course.

Drives them crazy literally

I'm going to assume this is a joke?

I thought the use of "everything" was a joke. Its one of those big words.

Just in case it isn't, I guess I should spell out just what my above statement was meant to imply:

When I said "the Imperium ignores individual planetary time," I did NOT mean that individual Imperials on an actual planet - let alone the locals themselves thereon - will necessarily ignore planetary time. I simply meant that anything officially Imperial will be time/date stamped using Imperial time, never local time.

Well, sure. If a message is dispatched from the Core, it will be automatically time/date-stamped.

As will be its receipt...in local lime.

Whenever translation between Imperial and local time becomes important, there will be all sorts of automated means - such as mobile phone aps - to enable easy conversion back and forth.

Something tells me that mobile phone apps will be known only to professors of VERY ancient history

Telling the time is not as easy as it seems even now.

For example Washington DC is on Eastern Standard Time with a -5 hour offset UTC/GMT, allowing for daylight saving, and then there are all the time zones between it and Sydney. This doesn't actually tell anyone what the REAL time is in Washington DC, and no one cares, except for anyone doing astrophysics research.

Day/night cycles will be maintained by whatever means are easiest in the particular situation. If the natural situation is fairly close to Sylean-normal, then no adjustments are normally made to people's behavior.

Fairly close?

How many worlds in the Imperium have identical orbits to the Sylean?

But if the divergence is enough to prevent easy acclimitization/adaptation, then humans (both local and Imperial) will live under conditions of artificial illumination that closely mimics a Sylean-normal day.

In situations without a natural day/night cycle - such as on a space station or an asteroid colony - such an artificially illuminated Sylean-normal cycle will be the standard.

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