Re: length of day (was Re: Kagga's Crown (was Re: Klingonaase))

[david joslyn <joslyn63@matrix.newpaltz.edu>]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jeffrey P Morgan wrote:

> > 
> >   A Qo'noS day could be longer.  Its just that the calculations were off by
> > eight minutes.
> >   Worf misaligned the two calendars (Earth and Qo'noS) and his calculations
> > were off eight minutes.  This says nothing about which days are longer.
> > 
> > DloraH
> > 
> 
> This, of course, raises the question of what the standard Federation day
> is based on. Is it Earth time at the Prime Meridian? San Francisco?
> Somewhere else?
> 
> 
Logic, and tradition, would dictate that, as the President's Office is
located in Paris, the Federation Standard day is 24 hours measued from the
Prime Meridian in Greenwich, England.


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