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Ren Waugh-Solo (behindthemask) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2016-07-19 14:25:00

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!network post, kylo ren / ben solo, snow white, tj wagner / nocturne (2182)

(003) Kylo Ren
People keep saying it's a new year, but I don't know how anyone keeps track of time here.

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	Ren bowtoorder 2016-07-19 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	I would have no control over that decision. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	hux+ren behindthemask 2016-07-19 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't ask you if you had control over it. I asked what you wanted. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hux+ren bowtoorder 2016-07-19 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	How many times am I to coddle your incessant need to hear that we are better allied than apart? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hux+ren behindthemask 2016-07-19 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	I am not asking to be coddled. You're being impossible. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hux+ren bowtoorder 2016-07-19 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	It certainly seems like coddling. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hux+ren behindthemask 2016-07-19 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	~~I am not-~~ ~~You~~ What would you call what you're doing? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rebelrebel 2016-07-19 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	The comms device says the date down in the corner! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-19 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	But what does that even mean? It's not like any date I've used at home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rebelrebel
2016-07-19 11:53 pm UTC (link)

Right so their solar cycle is somewhere around 360 days. I think it was 366 in 2016, and 365 in 2015. So we're in 2004, it's probably like 354.

And their year's divided into 12 "months" which are sort of based on the lunar cycle, but they're 30 days, or sometimes 29 or 31 days, but there's not really a pattern to predict how many days are in a month. You just kind of have to memorize it.

And so the date you're getting is the month. Then the day in the month and then the year, and's 2004 is years since they started celebrating Christmas which is a ... this guy was born and then they killed him but he came back to life and people get presents It doesn't matter. It's a weird earth thing.

So that's what you're looking at.

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littlehex
2016-07-20 12:45 am UTC (link)

There's a cheat for the number of days in a month, except it doesn't work for me because I've only got three fingers. But if you make a fist so there's four knuckles and three little bits between each knuckle you can count the months from left to right and every month that's on a knuckle has 31 days. And when you get to the one at the end you count it twice before you go back the other way. So all the ones that aren't on knuckles only have 30, except February, which has 28, except in a leap year when it has 29, but you don't need to worry about that unless we're still here in 2008.

I don't think that actually made it less complicated...

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	behindthemask 2016-07-20 12:48 am UTC (link)
	So some months have 31 days and some have 30, and some have 28 and some have 29. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	littlehex 2016-07-20 12:53 am UTC (link)
	Only February has 28. Or 29 every four years, because a year isn't exactly 365 days. I think they decided all the months and things ages ago and then realised they were wrong and just had to add bits all over the place so it would match up. I'm not really sure why they didn't just have twelve months of 30 days and then add another day to five of them though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

behindthemask
2016-07-20 12:50 pm UTC (link)

Well most year cycles are determined by the rotation around the sun, or suns, depending upon the system. Suns gets very complicated to determine and most planets with that tend to pick the major sun to calculate by. It's interesting that the length of the year here is very similar to the galactic standard year, which was set by Coruscant's solar cycle. Our months are different though.

The 29 days every four years then is just to 'settle' the calendar, keep it from skewing wildly, if I'm getting all of this correctly.

January starts the new year then.

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	littlehex 2016-07-20 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	I guess if the suns are about the same size the planet has to be a certain distance away to be the right temperature to live on. I'm better at biology than astronomy though so I don't know how much it would be able to vary. Yep. Named after someone Roman, I think. I used to know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-21 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	It's all right, I know more than I used to know. It's not like there's much way of uncovering any information on this island. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rebelrebel 2016-07-20 01:03 am UTC (link)
	Yeah not really. I guess it kind of makes sense. So January has 31 and February has 30 28 then March has 31 and April has 30 then May has 31 then June has 30 then.. July has 31 then August has 31 September has 30 October has 31 November has 30 and December has 31? What's a leap year? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	littlehex 2016-07-20 01:05 am UTC (link)
	Yup! Leap years are when they have to add a day because a year is actually 365.25 days or something like that. So every four years there's an extra day in February. ~~Except every hundred years, when there isn't unless it's also a millenium.~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rebelrebel 2016-07-20 01:19 am UTC (link)
	Oh. So sometimes new years eve is at like 6 am or noon or something? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	littlehex 2016-07-20 01:21 am UTC (link)
	Technically, probably, but mostly we just sort of ignore the extra hours until there's enough of them to be a whole day. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	behindthemask 2016-07-20 12:47 am UTC (link)
	The date and month thing might make sense at least. It's like Galactic Standard Calendar, or whatever? That Christmas thing was what everyone was muttering about a while back? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rebelrebel 2016-07-20 01:18 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, it's like a holiday. I think one of Judiciary GSC years is about 10 Earth months, but it's really close to Coruscant one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-20 12:52 pm UTC (link)
	I was just noticing that. But I haven't spent enough time on Coruscant to get really used to that annual cycle. Each planet is different. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	swhite 2016-07-20 11:21 am UTC (link)
	After hundreds of years, all the days bleed into one another. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-20 12:53 pm UTC (link)
	~~You don't look hundreds of years old, but~~ I can imagine that would be the case although I have only a mere few decades. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swhite 2016-07-20 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	You start to remember revolutions, wars, very important things like getting shot in the head with a sniper rifle. That sort of thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-20 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	You got shot in the head with a sniper rifle and survived? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swhite 2016-07-20 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	Fables are extremely difficult to kill. The more stories you're in, the stronger you are and Snow White is one of the most famous of all. Even if they don't tell it right. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-20 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	So you're a legend, in other words? But you're actually real. I guess most legends are in some way or another. I can't say I've ever heard of Snow White though, maybe that's one they don't have where I come from. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swhite 2016-07-20 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	Something like that, I suppose. I don't feel like a legend, more like a joke most of the time. Where do you come from then? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-21 12:35 am UTC (link)
	I'm sorry. I don't know exactly. Chandrila is as good a place to claim as any. I don't think it's near this world, possibly not even in this galaxy as best I can tell. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swhite 2016-07-22 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing to be done about it, and it's come in handy. That's a country, a planet? Chandrila? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-22 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	A planet. It's where the Republic set up its government originally. It's a nice enough place I suppose. But I haven't been there in a long time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swhite 2016-07-22 02:53 pm UTC (link)
	What was it like? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-25 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Chandrila? I mean, nice enough I guess. It's not really where I grew up forever, it was just where I was born. Recently I've spent more time on spaceships. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	swhite 2016-07-25 09:04 am UTC (link)
	I meant was it forest, urban, desert. That sort of thing. I imagine so. In a world where travel between planets, I suspect that's where I'd spend most of my time as well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-27 01:04 am UTC (link)
	It can be cramped and uncomfortable, but I don't mind it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stepsister 2016-07-20 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	It isn't as hard when you knew what day it was when you arrived. I figure it's impossible when you just appear from nowhere. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-21 12:36 am UTC (link)
	Add in an entirely different way of keeping track of dates and really makes it impossible. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stepsister 2016-07-21 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, that would make it basically impossible. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-22 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	It seems it might be difficult enough even otherwise. Have you been making marks on a cave wall or something? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stepsister 2016-07-22 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sure someone has. I take them at their word for what day it is. Seems accurate enough. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-25 02:14 am UTC (link)
	I'll take your word for it I guess as there doesn't seem to be any way to fact check it. Is it as weird for you to not know what day it is as it is for me? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stepsister 2016-07-26 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	~~Sayid would have probably known away to confirm it.~~ That's probably the best idea. It is, yeah, but it's pretty much on the same level of weird as you all arriving at all or the random underground shelter with all the retro tech. Do you remember what the last day was for you? Back home? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-27 01:06 am UTC (link)
	Honestly, I don't. I don't pay that much attention to the days unless there's a particular reason to, which there hasn't been. I guess it doesn't much matter here either. It isn't as if any of us have to keep appointments. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stepsister 2016-07-31 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	It's easy to just get lost in time. I didn't pay much attention to what day it was back home. It'd be nice if we did have something to count down and look forward to. I don't know what but something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-08-01 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	The console usually told us. When we moved from planet to planet so frequently it is difficult to keep track of local time even. We could always make something up. There is no need to stand on tradition here I think. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hellotrickster 2016-07-22 05:44 pm UTC (link)
	Humans have a rhyme about it to help their children remember. Thirty days has September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31, except for February, which has 28 days clear and 29 in each leap year. Though the running order in that is wrong. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	behindthemask 2016-07-25 02:15 am UTC (link)
	Thirty days has September, April, June and November - Feburary has 28 except every four years, yes? That's what they mentioned above. The running order, oh, you mean the order of the months for the thirty day listing. It doesn't match the one Sabine said. (Reply to this) (Parent)