[ShadowGorrath]

I was wondering- how can the Vasudans organise stuff, when VGT is 32+ hours, and TGT is 24 hours? I mean, unless they have some convertion for it, or standardised version, I can imagine how the zods would be late for every battle.

Also, is it said anywhere on how many hours in total is VGT?

( VGT - Vasudan Galactic Time; TGT - Terran Galactic Time )

[terran_emperor]

I think standard time is based on the length of tthe day on your race's homeworld.

TGT = Earth Time - thus 24 hour's a day

Obviousy there will be various different local times


VGT  works the same way, except there 34(Speculation) hours in a day

[Kosh]

TGT = Earth Time - thus 24 hour's a day

So does that mean all of Earth has just one timezone? How is the time difference calculated for the offworld colonies/space stations/whatever?

[captain-custard]

im sure they have a local time for each region and a zulu time ( a standard military based time zone that is fixed )

[Galemp]

Given the way the Vasudan language works I wouldn't be surprised if Vasudan Galactic Time was calculated based on the number of rotations of the Vasudan moon per orbit of the star around the Galactic center divided by the number of hairs on the Emperor's head.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Do fishheads have HAIRS?

[Jeff Vader]

Headz, maybe? 

[redsniper]

Where is it ever said that Vasudans have 32 hour time?

[Jeff Vader]

In the command briefing of SM2-07 the time 3230 is given. This lead to the conclusion that Vasudan Galactic Time consists of at least 32 hours (note that ShadowGorrath did say 32+).

[SadisticSid]

Perhaps it could be 3230 'ticks' of whatever clock the Vasudans use.

[terran_emperor]

TGT = Earth Time - thus 24 hour's a day

So does that mean all of Earth has just one timezone? How is the time difference calculated for the offworld colonies/space stations/whatever?

I did say "Various Local Time". Prehaps i should have been clearer and sais "Terran Galactic Time = Earth Standard Time" where EST is based on the time zone in which the GTA govournment is seated. So if the GTA capital is located in the UK, then TGT is the same as Greenrich Mean Time.

I'd imagine that the Terran millitary opporates on TGT as would non-orbital outposts/colonies (Colonies that don't orbit a planet) eg Enif Station, there is no planet in sight, so it opporates on TGT. Moon-based out posts would also opperate on TGT - For Luna (Earth's Moon) a single day is the same as 29.5 Earth days

Planetary bases colonies will opporate on their local standard time, based on where the capital is but also have local time zones - For Examle Mars has almost 25 hours in a day. It the Matian captial is located on Syria Planum, then Martian Standard Time (MST) is based on the meridian running through that Region. Of course mars will still have its own time zones.

Orbital Colonies/Outposts will do 1 of 5 things.
1) Be located in Geosycronous orbit if the planet's rotational cycle is similar to TGT, so id say minimum 20 hours in a day, maximum 28 hours in a day. EG an Earth orbital conolies would be in an orbit that takes 24 hours.
2) If the planet has a very short day (like Jupiter - less than 10 hours in a Jovian Day) then the colony will opperate on TGT
3) If the Planet has a day of 28 - 36 hours, then the orbiting colony will be in an orbit that takes ~24 hours to complete
4) If the planet has a very long day (like Venus - Venus rotates once every 243 days), then the colony will opperate on TGT
5) If the planet 1 or more moons, then the Colonies may be located and the moon's 5 Lagrangian Points (like the colony clusters in Gundam Wing) in which case they will opporate on TGT.

I imagine that the Vasudan military and colonies opporate on a similar basis, just they have 32+ hours in a day. This means that a Terran living on a Vasudan Colony or stationed on a Vasudan ship/outpost will be spend a fortune on coffee and/or Stims until they get used to opperating on Vasudan time

[admiral_wolf]

I'd imagine that TGT is set to GMT.

[Droid803]

Most likely. That creates the least confusion.
Maybe Vasudan Galactic Time is 36 or 48 hours? Then it'll synch up quite nicely with TGT (with a 2:3 ratio or a 1:2 ratio)

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Do you think the proud Vasudans would adapt their time schedule to fit our worthless Terran one?

[terran_emperor]

No. Any terran who works on a vasudan ship/colony/outpost will be a coffee/stim junkey

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Actually, I thought the Vasudans are the early birds in every sortie.

Time for some math.

* Androgeos Exeunt kicks open his Calculator.

So, let's imply that the Vasudans have about 36 VGT hours per day, and each day lasts for 24 hours in Terran units. This means that, in each day, there is 24 x 60 x 60 = 86 400 Terran seconds. If you divide 86 400 by 36, you get 2400. So for every Vasudan Galactic hour, 2400 seconds elapse. Assuming that they also equate 60 minutes to an hour, there should be 40 Terran seconds to a Vasudan Galactic minute.

In short, if VGT is a 36-hour cycle, one Vasudan minute is the same as 40 Terran seconds.

[BengalTiger]

and each day lasts for 24 hours in Terran units.

I'd say that's highly improbable.
What about basing their days on a 36 hour system? One hour=10 degrees of rotation of their planet...

(that is assuming that math is so universal, that even the Zods divided the wheel into 360 parts)

[Melkor]

I did not know that people cared about vasudan time 

[terran_emperor]

Well, the Zods do for a start and they get very cranky when on Terran Galactic Time so you have to be careful or

[Androgeos Exeunt]

You mean like HLPers who have "Vasudan" at the start of their name?

* Androgeos runs away.