Time system for a Ring-World
What sort of time/date system would suit a Dyson Ring, also known as a Ring-World, an artificial habitat megastructure shaped like a circular band, located in the habitable zone encircling a star, in this case Sol?
What about a Dyson Sphere?
In either case, what factors would decide where to put the Prime Meridian?
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Like Philip said, Niven's Ringworld had an inner ring of shades that rotated inside to give a day night cycle.
The inner ring was not a solid ring. It was made of electricity generating sections connected by unbreakable monofiliment lines.
The downside of this setup is that you'd still have to have time zones to deal with local time.
It might be interesting to instead have the inner ring be solid, and oscillate up and down in its orbit, so the entire ring would be on the same time.
If you're going to go to all the trouble of building an impossibly large structure out of impossibly strong materials why give yourself the same drawbacks as a rotating sphere.
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