Time

Although many species and civilizations have their own methods of recognizing time, the League of Enlightened Academies (LEA) has established the following guidelines, which are recognized by the Civil Concordance, The Union, and fourteen-hundred other governmental entities throughout the galaxy:

Era Before Opening / Era After Opening:

• Era Before Opening (EBO): time prior to The Opening
• Year Zero: the year of The Opening
• Era After Opening (EAO): time after The Opening, up to, and including, the modern day

Due to the massive timescale at play, years are recorded as such:

• 21345 EAO would be twenty-one thousand, three-hundred and forty-five years in the Era After Opening.
• Additionally, many scholars choose to write it as the following: 21st Cycle, 3rd Century, 45th Year OR Cycle 21, 3rd Century, Year 45

Millennia consist of 1000 years. A Century consists of 100 years. A year is made up of 365 days (see below).
Months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds have their basis in ancient tradition, thought to derive from calendars even older than The Precursors. Whatever this civilization was, no specific information exists, but its impact on our society is far-reaching.

Research indicates that the length of months corresponds to the orbital period of a specific stellar object, orbiting a specific world, and equates to approximately thirty days per month (with some months being a day longer to account for this lost-world's solar year). The months are:

• 01: Wulfspan - 31 days
• 02: Solmanoth - 30 days
• 03: Warmarche - 30 days
• 04: Desirous - 31 days
• 05: Maia - 30 days
• 06: Midspan - 31 days
• 07: Czarus - 30 days
• 08: Leorex - 30 days
• 09: Midnoctis - 31 days
• 10: Frostfall - 30 days
• 11: Andromeda -30 days
• 12: Endspan - 31 days

Days are twenty-four hours in length; this is, again, based on the rotation of the unknown world. Hours are recorded from 00:00 to 24:00.
Hours and minutes are divided into 60 equal sections, subdivided from the length of a day.
Most planets observe local time, even if they are one of the civilizations that recognize LEA guidelines. The LEA also broadcasts a "Primary Galactic Time," based on the scale above, allowing computer systems and starships to maintain a relative time. Due to the complexity of making all these timeframes work, interplanetary travel can get very tricky.



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