Talk:Colonial calendar/Archive 1

Truncation

This article's contents are from the oversized and messy Timeline (RDM) article. A screencap of Adama's dossier would be greatly appreciated here. --Spencerian 14:30, 26 December 2006 (CST)

Twelve Colonies Series

Move to "Timekeeping in the Twelve Colonies" or somesuch, and add to the Twelve Colonies series? --Peter Farago 17:13, 26 December 2006 (CST)

It's a better title, yours, and fits better in keeping the data in a superarticles like Science and Twelve Colonies (I like them). I'll keep this as a redirect for shorthand but look into moving it. --Spencerian 19:45, 26 December 2006 (CST)

Colonial seconds

You infer that there are as many Colonial seconds in a Colonial year as there are Earth seconds in an Earth year. However, you neglected to mention that Colonial seconds have been established as a little longer than Earth seconds (Miniseries, 33, Hand of God.) --MHall 12:02, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, from what I can tell, the duration of seconds is the same, if you note the time clocks in the CIC in "33" (ignoring the obvious gaffes that occur in that episode due to editing). This is also supported in "Faith" during the countdown on Demetrius's bridge, which supports the direct correlation between Earth time and Colonial time. The only thing that hasn't been nailed down is how they name their days of the week, their months, or how they note their years—there are at least two different documents that contradict each other in noting year dates. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 14:35, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Colonial, Caprican or Gregorian calendar?

Since the twelve colonies weren't united during the time of Caprica, I think we should wait for evidence from other colonies before concluding that any dating systems observed on the planet Caprica are common to all twelve colonies (which is why I put my note about Junius at the bottom of the article). Furthermore, the use of 52-week years and Saturday really stretches credibility and poses the question whether all time references should be considered more or less faithful translations for the benefit of the viewer, along with the use of English. Also, the episode never tied Saturday to Saturn or Junius to Juno - was this confirmed anywhere or is it just informed speculation? -- Graf Iblis 07:56, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

As RDM said in the past, they speak English—it's not a conceit for the benefit of the viewer. No more than the dating system used, or the fact that days are 24 hours long, etc. This is nothing new in the BSG universe, as they have chickens, cats, and everything else that Earth pretty much has. Unification of the colonies has nothing to do with the calendar system. In our society, English is the language of commerce, all countries use the metric system (although it isn't standard in the USA, because we're just frakking stupid) and the way we keep track of dates on Earth is through the Gregorian system. This doesn't mean that there are other things out there (different currencies, units of measure, etc), but... for the purposes of the story, the "Colonial calendar" as depicted in this article is the Colonial standard—as are cubits in terms of money. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Battlestar Pegasus} 22:24, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Re-imagined Series definition: nerve center or "bridge" of a battlestar, see: Combat Information Center

Re-imagined Series definition: Battlestar Group ^{(TRS: "Water")}. It also doubles as an acronym for the television series itself.

Original Series definition: a unit of distance, the Earth measurement being equivalent to a kilometer

Re-imagined Series definition: all-purpose vulgarism; Colonial version of "fuck" (see: frak)

Original Series definition: a form of coined currency (see: cubit)