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* Adverted in Embassytown by [[China Mieville]] where, given the number of planets colonized, time is mostly given in Kilohours. When the narrator does talk about years, they turn out to be about 3.5 earth years long.
* [[John Varley]]'s novel ''Red Lightning'' mostly takes place on Mars, which has a day that is 24.622 hours. The Martian settlers chose to make the day 24 hours by stopping the clock for the 0.662 hours.
* Averted in E.E. "Doc" Smith's ''Skylark Three'' -- when a captured Fenachrone spills under interrogation that reinforcements will arrive in 'fourtwo-tenths of a standard yearperiod', the protagonist first has to loot a Fenachrone wristwatch and then do a lot of math to convert Fenachrone-minutes to hours to days to etc. just to find out how long a "standard yearperiod" (what we would call a 'year') ''is'' in their time system. Not surprisingly, it has absolutely no resemblance to a Terran timeyear.
 
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