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Universal Interstellar Time

The time and calendar system used across known space. Also known as UIT.

Universal Interstellar Time

  • Units are seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years.
    • Known space is split between counting days as either the number of days since the beginning of the year (and not counting weeks at all), or since the beginning of the current week. Wars were fought between interstellar civilizations to reach the current state of the standard. Let's not mess with it any further.
  • Conversions
    • Seconds to minutes: 60
    • Minutes to hours: 60
    • Hours to days: 30
    • Days to weeks: 7
    • Weeks to years: 50
    • Days to years: 350
    • All units are counted starting at 0.
    • The first week of the year is week 0. The first day of the week is day 0, etc.
  • Typical Date formats (examples showing Year 7900, Day 178, noon):
    • Yyyyy Dddd Thh:mm:ss
      • Y7921 D178 T12:00
    • Yyyyy Www Dd Thh:mm:ss
      • Y7921 W25 D3 T12:00
    • yyyy-ddd
      • 7921-178
    • yyyy-ddd-hh:mm:ss
      • 7921-178-12:00:00
    • yyyy-ww-d (d is day of week, single digit, starting with 0.)
      • 7921-25-3
    • yyyy-ww-d-hh:mm:ss
      • 7921-25-3-12:00:00
  • Game play started at 7921-000 or 7921-00-0, depending on how you feel about counting weeks or days.