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by noir_lord
2674 days ago
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> We could use the UNIX epoch! Vernor Vinge got there way ahead of you, If you haven't read his books and given the way this community slants you are missing out. > Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems. |
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