> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Alexx S Kay wrote: > > > Hours have 60 minutes (FH 256). Hours and minutes are apparently > > identical to their Terran counterparts, and were presumably established by > > the original Terran colonists (see below). > > I see no evidence for equating Dragaeran and Terran minutes and hours. > It seems unlikely to me that they could be equivalent. Of course it's > possible that the ratio of days is exactly 30/24, but 29/24 is as likely, > as is (29.1)/24. But in either of the latter cases, I would anticipate > the minute being changed so that there would be an even number of hours. > As long as the second stayed the same, I don't think the physicists would > care. > > In John M. Ford's great _Growing Up Weightless_, which is set on the moon, > the lunar society uses 25 hour days with the final hour being 12.5 minutes > long. Obviously such an arrangement isn't possible without computers - so > pre-Orb, there must have been some accomodation in the non-exact case. I really like this solution. It feels like what earth colonists would actually do. In fact, I'm adding a suggestion to this effect to the next version of the Timeline (with credit). > > There are 17 months in the year, of 17 days each (PG 59). Both days and > > months are named after the Houses. > > Does the Cycle favor the Dzur on the day of the Dzur in the month of the > Dzur? I imagine the empire's stock market must oscillate a lot... My (totally-usupported-by-textev) theory would be that you could see such an effect with statistical analysis, but that local variation would be strong enough to make it not very useful. Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you get between the right man and the right woman. [Seen on a Nancy Button, http://www.nancybuttons.com/]