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Imagine living on a space ark. Any calendar would work, since there would be no incentive to line up with the motion of any particular planetary body.

Now, imagine we stopped caring about that anyway. Ok, leave days, but the rest? Superfluous. How about decimal time? 100,000 seconds in a day, count days and be done with it. When is Xmas? In 300 days.



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