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Home Posts tagged  timekeeping

Tag: timekeeping

For a Darkness Protection Act

Making daylight saving time permanent, i.e. the “Sunshine Protection Act”? Blech. What we really need is to make standard time permanent; in the spirit of the rather propagandistic moniker springing forward for good goes by these days, I’ll call my solution of falling back for … Continue readingFor a Darkness Protection Act

Posted on March 18, 2022by Adamas Nemesis1 Comment

Worldbuilding Number Systems

One of the most fun aspects of worldbuilding is constructing new aspects of every society, to make the world new again, as I have enjoyed recently in my first and second posts on worldbuilding my calendar. One aspect of worldbuilding that is often neglected is … Continue readingWorldbuilding Number Systems

Posted on August 12, 2021by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

More Thoughts on my New Calendar

I’ve grown quite enamored with my “new calendar” or “American Revolutionary Calendar”, inspired by the famous French Republican Calendar and Tolkien’s “Shire Reckoning”, for my science-fiction space-opera setting. I’ve already expressed a first set of thoughts on the subject of worldbuilding new calendars in a … Continue readingMore Thoughts on my New Calendar

Posted on August 10, 2021February 17, 2022by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

Worldbuilding New Calendars

Fantastical calendars are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, and for good reason: a way of measuring time that differs from our own being prevalent really helps to immerse one into another world. Sometimes this applies to our very own Earth, which has produced … Continue readingWorldbuilding New Calendars

Posted on August 4, 2021by Adamas Nemesis4 Comments
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