Jesus. It doesn’t even list Vinge’s version… we just count everything in seconds. The ksec (kilosecond) is the unit used to indicate things that will happen in the near future (see you in 3 ksecs). The msec (megasecond) is used much like we use for weeks, and the gsec is used much like we now use decades. Only geologists really use tsecs.
Jesus. It doesn’t even list Vinge’s version… we just count everything in seconds. The ksec (kilosecond) is the unit used to indicate things that will happen in the near future (see you in 3 ksecs). The msec (megasecond) is used much like we use for weeks, and the gsec is used much like we now use decades. Only geologists really use tsecs.
And there’s no need to reinvent the wheel, we can just use UNIX time!
Pretty much. Though in Deepness in the Sky, code archeologists believe that zero seconds dates to the landing on the moon, rather than 1970.