https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/15/tags/2136.rssNew Posts Tagged 'time-keeping' - Scientific SpeculationScientific Speculation - Codidact2023-07-23T12:20:01Zhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/288191Could there be a way for a solar system to be very precise, so that the lunar calendar and solar calendar align?Bianca_Railwayhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/608132023-05-30T05:35:35Z2023-07-23T12:20:01Z<p>I know that this is a bit silly, but I want to make a calendar for my world and I'm really worried about having to do leap years and such to ensure continuing accuracy.</p>
<p>Inaccuracy isn't ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263202Would a civilization living on a planet without a moon still come up with the concept of months?galactic_analyzerhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/445642020-05-16T03:27:41Z2020-05-17T05:08:06Z<p>We divide the year into months of ~30 days because that's roughly the period of the moon, adapted to fit a solar year.</p>
<p>However, would a civilization living on a world with no moon but a ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/259321An alien race without the concept of "time"Systemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12020-01-11T20:50:26Z2020-01-14T15:05:25Z<p>In my narrative I have these aliens that don't experience time, they don't remember and don't predict events, which makes them completely reactionary. This is supposed to make them alien and dif...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273956What would it take to make a scientific second equal exactly one traditional second?Nosajimiki - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/431722019-11-21T18:14:25Z2019-11-21T22:01:15Z<p>A scientist is resetting the clock on his microwave one day as he considers the hopelessness of keeping the time exactly right. Not for the reasons we worry about like power outages and dayligh...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/254190Born and raised on a world with longer days and years - would it impact life expectancyTommyhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/439292019-07-11T06:11:46Z2019-07-11T14:21:43Z<p>If humans found a habitable world and access to it, what would the effects be of a longer day to those who were subsequently born and raised there?</p>
<p>Is there any evidence that a longer da...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/253985What's the overlapping calendar of two different lunar cyclesBett Strublehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/434762019-06-29T06:03:16Z2019-07-03T12:51:24Z<p>In My world of PD there are two distinct moons, Aurie is a big cream colored moon on a 32 day cycle and Chi is a smaller rust- colored moon on a 20 day cycle.
Can somebody help me figure out how...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/239166How would a Lunar Calendar be set up with 2 moons?Redwolfhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/419962018-02-07T00:23:19Z2019-07-01T17:19:31Z<p>So I have a super-Earth that has 2 moons. Moon 1 is a bit smaller than our moon, and has an orbital period of 19.25 earth days. Moon 2 is larger than our moon and has an orbital period of 147.15...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/252588What calendar would the Saturn nation use?Classified Angelhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/407252019-05-06T05:06:29Z2019-05-08T21:05:28Z<p>In my next novel, there are three major powers in the solar system: Earth, Mars, and Saturn. Earth runs on a slightly modified Gregorian calendar, Mars goes with the good old Darian calendar, an...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/206942On a planet without seasons, how would people track years?Nerrolkenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/23372014-10-15T22:52:04Z2019-03-25T13:32:20Z<p>On a planet without axial tilt and with a roughly circular orbit, there would be no seasons. The climate on the planet would be, as far as I can tell, exactly the same at any time of year, and ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/218450If clock and calendar was reinvented with today's knowledge, what could they look like?The Veehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/258862016-04-01T00:16:12Z2019-01-19T20:43:54Z<p>Our notion of recording and communicating time and date is based on very old concepts, many of them being built upon flawed assumptions (that the Sun should be at exact south at noon, that a yea...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/248643What's an astronomical event which happened about 10,000 years ago, which humans could have noticed?Tanner Swetthttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/50272018-12-20T19:59:02Z2018-12-22T17:27:01Z<p>Bob is older than he looks.</p>
<p>Specifically, even though Bob looks like he's in his twenties or thirties (it's hard to tell), he was actually born in Europe about ten thousand years ago, lo...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/244949How to distinguish the different phases of the day when the sun rises and sets multiple times?Z. Schroederhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/417072018-08-19T05:15:55Z2018-08-19T17:05:13Z<p>Obviously there would be a lot of small (not to mention a couple large) changes humans would need to get used to on a planet that rotates much faster than Earth. The biggest one I'm concerned ab...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/244586How far can civilization go without inventing the calendar?Mindwinhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/65612018-08-11T12:28:58Z2018-08-11T17:42:51Z<p>While only counting seasons and years, but not weeks or months, how far can human civilization progress?</p>
<p>Can they reach the middle ages?</p>
<p>Or is the invention of the calendar such ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/242131How does one calculate the length of a planet's solar year?RealEgoraptorhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/424222018-05-20T20:17:38Z2018-05-20T20:30:53Z<p>I have a planet with a specified sidereal day and sidereal year, and a solar day. But how can I determine the length of its solar year from this?</p>
<p>Sidereal day: 1d 1h 52m 11s</p>
<p>Sola...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/242048How would someone keep time on Mars?Charlie Kovashttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/424082018-05-16T21:21:13Z2018-05-16T21:41:09Z<p>I understand that a Sol is a Martian day, a little longer than a day on Earth (... 30 minutes I think?) and there are 24 months using the Darian calendar. So if people lived on Mars, what is a c...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/239867How to calculate hour angle of a moon?Rúnatál Davinohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/59512018-03-03T00:25:56Z2018-04-25T08:38:40Z<p>I am trying to construct a standing stone calendar for my world Jasmi, located at latitude 53.8 degrees South. To do this, I need the hour angle of moonrise and moonset for my world. The problem...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/239823How do I calculate solar altitude and hour angle from the surface of another planet?Rúnatál Davinohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/59512018-03-01T17:00:08Z2018-03-31T19:43:17Z<p>I'm trying to calculate the solar declination at the solstices, solar altitude at solar noon, and hour angles at sunrise and sunset to build a standing stone calendar at latitude 53.8 degrees So...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/237949Year marking astronomical event with extreme perihelion precessionL.Dutch - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/400282017-12-27T09:33:17Z2017-12-27T12:11:22Z<p>For us earthlings, the concept of "year" came from the observation that the Sun reaches a minimum and a maximum span in the rise-set path in the sky. </p>
<p>On a planet experiencing extreme pe...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/237796What do Martians use for months and weeks?kingledionhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/77042017-12-20T01:18:42Z2017-12-22T08:47:08Z<p>Assume Mars has developed an indigenous civilization of its own, perhaps as seen in Edgar Rice Burroughs' <em>A Princess of Mars</em>. </p>
<p>Much like Earth, Mars' years and days would be sig...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/235445Binary star system, What time is it?ultorianhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/415042017-09-29T22:52:43Z2017-10-01T04:26:29Z<p>You are native to a planet that falls between two suns, thus ensuring eternal sunshine.</p>
<p>How would we be able to tell the time? Do you formulate some kind of system based on which sun is ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/234829The 372-Day CalendarJohnWDaileyhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/43992017-09-13T21:47:37Z2017-09-13T22:08:20Z<p>There seems to be a connection between orbital revolution (one year) and distance from the star the body orbits. For example, Earth orbits the sun at a distance of 93 million miles and complete...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/225952Accuracy of timekeeping based on the age of EarthZxyrrahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/397492016-12-04T03:21:59Z2016-12-04T16:57:59Z<p>In many countries, we number the years based off of proximity to an event in the Christian religion - we are over 2016 years past that date. However, in this scenario, religion has become less m...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/224284Standardisation of Time in a FTL UniverseSystemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12016-10-17T07:50:43Z2016-11-30T23:57:11Z<p>Here on Earth, time standardisation was enabled by the invention of accurate time pieces which allowed us to create a global constant (GMT/Zulu time) and regional offsets. If we travel outside ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/224752Multiple 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?Ymra Nhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/398332016-10-28T21:00:43Z2016-10-28T22:13:16Z<p>I have a habitable moon orbiting a gas giant, and there is another moon orbiting the planet on a closer orbit. The cultures on the near-side of the further, habitable moon use the transit of the...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/223750Timekeeping Systems on a Habitable MoonAtlas the Worldbuilderhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/396572016-09-30T19:52:38Z2016-09-30T22:17:03Z<p>Ok, this is take two. Hopefully this is specific enough. I have a link to the original question <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/56920/what-are-some-possible-ways-a-c...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222976Would people living on different ringworlds around the same star measure time differently?Z.Schroederhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/390242016-09-08T20:37:07Z2016-09-08T21:41:01Z<p>Okay so I have a sci-fi world masquerading as a fantasy world where numerous different genetically-engineered humanoids live on nine different ringworlds orbiting an artificial Earth-mass black ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222309Different ways geographically distant cultures might measure time?Z.Schroederhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/390242016-08-23T03:24:12Z2016-08-23T18:03:38Z<p>Okay so in my world, I have two pre-industrial societies that live thousands of miles apart from each other on their ringworld. One lives in a desert climate similar to India or the Middle East ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/218075My BIG World Needs More SunsSerban Tanasahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/368462016-03-14T20:11:47Z2016-03-15T21:49:18Z<h3>Summary version:</h3>
<p>So we're talking people living on top of 30 miles of topsoil, fake dino fossils and water on the <strong>outer</strong> surface on a hollow (but sturdy) <a href="https...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/217900How can a floral clock be made accurate enough to replace normal timekeeping?Tim Bhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/28272016-03-08T09:51:41Z2016-03-09T10:26:31Z<p>A village is famous for its flowers and wants to bring in tourism by replacing its timekeeping and basing everything around a flower clock. Schools and shops all agree to set their times by the ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/208898What would a lunar calendar look like?17482https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/310172015-01-16T19:35:07Z2015-01-17T06:06:00Z<p><a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/2523/458">First see this great answer on considerations when making a calendar.</a></p>
<p>Consider a human colony on our own moon. Let's assu...