Did you know that a jovian year is 11.8618 terran years? I had thought it was more around 10 terran years for whatever reason!
I'm thinking about how you'd display times on different planets again. Presumably just having a count of small time units (probably nanoseconds?) and then converting that to local time as needed? It certainly seems like the most flexible for encyclopedic content at least...
@StarshipAmelia hmmm... we have a thing called atomic time, but with calendars, you would do years and days, unless it's a tidally locked body, then a day is a year
if it has moons you can make months =P
then you would find a useful division for the day and just count planet specific hours, but you can aleays refer to earthly minutes and seconds, cause those are more handy as they are
@Efi Oh frick how could I forget about atomic time lol (Tho that's affected by earth's mass per relativity, so maybe one located somewhere in solar orbit would be best?)
And yeah, tho months get kinda hard when you have dozens of moons ^^ I suppose you could chose one arbitrarily? (Or just the first to be colonized).
For days it might make sense to chose a global amount of hours to use everywhere, because a ganymedean day is 172 hours! Compare that to titanian days, which are 16 days! Compared to Martian days, which are a 24 hours and 40 minutes!
@StarshipAmelia you don't need to account for relativity for atomic time, it's a virtual time, not the one the actual clock ticks, it's accounted for
you can have overlapping months, a month system per moon, it's not more confusing than some earthly systems
a day with 172 hours is fine, a day with 284 hours is fine, the thing about hours is dividing the day into manageable chunks, not representative ones, days and years are representative
@Efi I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by not needing to account for relativity for atomic clocks? (The rest all makes sense tho!)
@Efi Ah I see what you mean now, I had thought you meant that the clock was somehow immune to relativity and got confused! Tyvm for clarification! ^^
@StarshipAmelia it is, in a sense, because relativity is just a way to timidly say that time is fake anyway =P
@StarshipAmelia gravity changes the speed of the clock, but we know how much, so we don't need another clock, we can know the speed of the clock at any place through math
plus, relativity only matters if you're interacting with far away objects anyway