Galactic Standard Calendar

The Galactic Standard Calendar was created by the First Terran Empire. It continues to be the standard for interplanetary commerce, though individual worlds have their own local calendars.

Definitions

Galactic Standard Year = 400 days

Galactic Standard Day = 25 hours

Galactic Standard Hour = 100 minutes

Galactic Standard Minute = 100 seconds

Galactic Standard Second = Duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the caesium-133 atom at a temperature of 0°K.

How to Tell Time

The proper format for displaying or reading time is

Year.Day.Hour.Minute.Second

Example: 4519.200.17.00.00 is the seventeenth hour of the 200th day of the year 4519. Most people do not commonly convey accuracy down to the second.