Federal Calendar and Time System

Published by ENTIA on August 15, 2024August 15, 2024

Federal Calendar

At the dawn of interstellar travel, historians of Interplanetary Trade Alliance were met with two peculiar facts: Human populations of newly discovered worlds were genetically related to people from the core worlds and each other. Genetic drift in-between them was only few dozen generations long. Also, neither of these civilizations had any historical accounts prior to the past millennium, and some of them shared myths of “coming from the sky”.

Based on these findings, the Exodus Theory was established. It explained all these human-inhabited worlds with a major Exodus Event where humans were taken from one single planet of origins and seeded across the cosmos. After prolonged debates among planetary representatives and diverse experts of the Interplanetary Trade Alliance, a commonly accepted Day of Exodus was agreed upon. Based on that agreement the Humanity’s Common Calendar was established.

The Day of Exodus is an average of all extrapolated dates when each human civilization claimed to begin. When accepted by nations across ITA, the Day of Exodus was established to be exactly 1000 years in the past. All subsequent years after that point in time got designated as After the Exodus (AE), and anything before that point was accounted for in negative numbers and designated as Before the Exodus (BE). This is why some cultures that claim to be older then others have historical accounts that paradoxically date years Before the Exodus.

Federal Time System

Federal time system is based on an ancient cave painting that allegedly described the the time of humanity’s Ancient Origin. This system is used in reference to interplanetary processes and is not related to orbital cycles of any specific planet in the Federation.

Standard Year (SY) equals 12 Standard Months (SM), and 360 Standard Days (SD). The latter is 24 Standard Hours (SH).

Additionally to that, each planet of the Federation has local time that is used as a reference for describing specific planetary events.

For example, when planning project on planet Azor, federal clerk should describe its time span in both Federal Time Units (SY, SM, SD) and in Local Time Units, like Azor Year (AY), Azor Month (AM) and Azor Day (AD)

Sources

Federal United Database