OpenGeofiction
Did you ever consider using Decimal Time for your imaginary country? I’m seriously considering to use it. Because our 7 days/24 hours/60 minutes/60 seconds system is simply … stupid. Ok, partly my personal point of view.
It came to my mind when I was browsing some of my very old projects. See my Decimal Time display here
Happy mapping! joschi81
Discussion
Comment from Ūdilugbulgidħū on 28 April 2016 at 17:24
Or there is this, the chaos calendar, made with a friend of mine a few years back. Still ticking away. It will match GMT at midnight every new year. Each day has a different length; up to about a week for the longest day, down to about an hour. Definitely ‘useless’. But when you think about it, time is a very recent invention.
Comment from joschi81 on 28 April 2016 at 18:48
@Wal: That clock shows the 119th day of the year 2016, which is today, April 28th 2016. But if you see November 9th in it, I propose you should definetily not use the Decimal Time for your country. :)
@Udi: The chaos calendar is a very interesting idea as well. But for some reason I chose not to use it for my countries. :D
Comment from Reece202 on 28 April 2016 at 22:42
Never considered decimal time but I have been trying to develop a new calendar system for Calliesanyo.
Comment from Luciano on 29 April 2016 at 03:49
I suppose it’s a possibility. Since both Ardisphere and Mahhal originally existed on separate, non-Earth planets, they actually had their own timekeeping systems based on different astronomical data. But in adapting the countries to the OGF context (i.e. “parallel Earth”) I just scrapped the whole idea and went with what was easy and familiar.
Mahhal will have to have a distinct pre-modern calendar to reflect its pre-“European”-contact civilization, but on OGF, it has to be adapted to terrestrial intervals (i.e. Earth-standard day, Earth-standard year). So I have to start from scratch. Mahhal’s pre-modern counting system is base 84 (haha, really… derived from 7 x 12 - cf the Mayan base 260 <- 13 x 20). So their calander will have to have that kind cyclicity to it.
Ardisphere was always “Spanish speaking” - it was a case of extra-planetary colonization, in the future. As such, its calendar and timekeeping where “post-Terrestrial” - i.e. an ISO-type standard developed for a non-Earth planet, essentially a calendar and clock designed by committee in response to a new set of astronomical data. Since that environment is no longer relevant, the logical thing is for it to simply assume the Earth standard - or the OGF standard, if that evolves to be different from Earth’s at some point.