Re: [TML] Worldbuilding/Culturebuilding: Calendars Jeff Zeitlin 10 Mar 2018 01:03 UTC
On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:48:55 +0000, you wrote to Freelance Traveller: >Looking pretty informative, could possibly do with some expansion on >actually determining the calendars. Creating planetary calendars is >actually kind of easy (how many local days per local year, find culturally >significant number), but a bit more discussion on Fiat calendars in space >could be useful. Noted, although 'discussion' of fiat calendars would only amount to a couple of sentences, perhaps at most a short paragraph. As far as determining the calendar, that's either done by implication throughout the article, or becomes more appropriate for a separate article in Traveller By The Byte. >The really weird old sci-fi trend to describe time only as exponential >groupings of seconds should be avoided, but might as well be discussed. That's not really a calendar, so much as an extended clock/timer - you don't say "My birthday is every 31.5 megaseconds at kilosecond 36." Even H.Beam Piper's use of hours instead of seconds in _Four Day Planet_ was really clock/timer rather than calendar. ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2017. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)