Time

"If the human mind were to create a universe, it would be a clockwork." - Entity Watchmaker The passage of time is measured differently throughout the Heliopolis. It is a privilege of great prestige for all entities and civilizations to create a calendar and clockwork of their own. The manifold of different measures has clouded the human understanding of time in the Solar System as a whole. As they venture outward, the interest to set all of human history in relation to itself fades.

Each colony, each artificial isle has a historiography of its own. Only when a contact necessitates any common measure of time, a norm is established among two peoples.

Symposium Time
Set forth by the Symposium's Pantheon is the measure of time in metric and decimal terms. Decimal numerals and metric prefixes have been adopted many times by cultures and nations alike to divide their time according to natural phenomena of their homeworlds.

The Symposium Metric/Decimal Calendar bases the length of one day on the imperial 24-hour day, which is implemented on a majority of habitat stations and the cradle Earth itself. In daily use are: Day, Deciday, Milliday & Miniday

Example: 08:50:10 dt. = 20:32:08 Day 0 is considered the founding day of the Symposium, 01.01.2143 A.D.

380 years (prior to 2523 A.D.) = 138700 days = 138.7 kilodays