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** More or less ignored as the series grows more complex and the [[Techno Babble]] is replaced with political intrigue.

* Averted in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]], where characters at least occasionally mention things like it being "18:00 hours of a 26.7 hour day [on this particular planet]".

* Played straight for the most part in Andrey Livadny's ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'' books, where everyone in the [[The Federation|Confederacy of Suns]] uses the same years. Months and days are, conveniently, almost never mentioned. The years are, of course, standard Earth years, even though Earth isn't even a part of the Confederacy thanks to [[The War of Earthly Aggression]] that led to the [[The Empire|Earth Alliance]] being defeated by the [[The Alliance|Free Colonies]], which re-formed into the Confederacy.

** Subverted in one novel where an alien supercomputer asks how long it has been off-line, and a human replies that it has been over 3 million years, causing the computer to prompt for the definition of a "year". The human defines it as one full orbit around a star, prompting the computer to ask for further clarification as to the parameters of such an orbit. This stumps the human, as she has never thought of this. The computer then simply searches her mind and finds enough information about Earth to scan its own database for it. Of course, this fails to take into account that the database is 3 million years old, and Earth's orbit has changed since then.

 

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[[Category:Artistic License Physics]]

[[Category:Did Not Do the Research]]

[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]

[[Category:Space Does Not Work That Way]]

[[Category:Time Tropes]]