User blog:CenturiesOfAviation/Founder's Log

Interstellar Date: 2018.098.04
Okay so.....first log entry, here goes!

I'm sitting at my desk, facing this very computer screen, at 9.30 in the night. This is pretty last minute, considering I always take a long time to write things. Oh well.....

I just checked out Storybird. A new writing challange popped up, and since it's the month of April, the challenge is one of poetry. Everyone's super stoked about the challenge. Then again, everyone's always stoked about each writing challenge, which comes out every month.

I'm also watching food videos as I type this, so this will take quite some time.

So, seeing this is a log entry, I'll tell you about the 'Interstellar Date'.

See, here on Archive Nova, we(or rather I, since this is a personal project) don't exactly always use the Gregorian Calender as our date system. We use the 'Interstellar Date', a somewhat standardised date which can be easily used throughout THE STAR REPUBLIC Universe, becasue we don't want our alien neighbours to feel like a sense of unwanted 'human superiority'. That would be bad. Very bad. It would make the humans and the United Republic look like fascists since the UR is a founding member of the United Interstellar Worlds, and those aliens can be very sensitive and touchy when it comes to different systems of measurement and of course date systems(ahem, Elronians). Besides, all planets have different orbital periods.

Let's look at what the Interstellar Date and each section stands for.

Firstly, the Interstellar Date shows the date, obviously. It stands for the date of a specific day. The first section stands for the year, the second section stands for the day of the year and the last section stands for the month of the year. So basically 2018.098.04 stands for the 98th day in the year 2018, in the 4th month of the year-April (aka the 9th of April 2018).

The Interstellar Date has become so widely used in the universe that many alien factions have adapted the Date for their own years, months and days. For example, right now this day in the Elronian calender in the style of the Interstellar Date would be 12980.64.02 (the 64th day of the 12980th year of the Elronian Empire, in the second month of the year). Note: Each month in the Elronian calender is about 50 days.

That's it! The Interstellar Date explained. It's pretty simple to explain, so actually doesn't need much explaining. I just typed it pretty long for the sake of making this blog entry long, because at this point, I took 30 minutes writing this log entry(I guess it's a reasonable time??).

Alright, so I'm gonna end it here. I'm gonna go to sleep now and wake up to a brand new day!

CenturiesofAviation, Founder