Metric Time and the Universal Calendar

In the last post, entitled Counting in Vuduri, I hinted that the Vuduri week is ten days long and the Vuduri year is ten months long. That's because the Vuduri keep what is called Metric Time. A metric second lasts .865 seconds. This allows you to have 100 metric seconds in a metric minute, 100 metric minutes in a metric hour and 10 metric hours in a day.

Try the math yourself and you will see it really does work. A metric day equates exactly to 24 of our hours.

The only problem is the 365 day year. Nine of the Vuduri months are four weeks times 10 days = 360 days with only 5 left over. So the Vuduri month of Tamas is typically 5 days long but in leap years, it is 6 days.

The Vuduri or the mandasurte at least, call the tenth month "Poor Tamas" because it is the little month that got cheated of its full length.

Poor Tamas is actually also a world-wide holiday. It is a combination of the Jewish Yom Kippur which is a reflection back on one's transgressions from the prior year and a joyous New Year celebration. Most of the mandasurte take the entire "month" of Tamas off to celebrate.

So far, so good. All this helps us on Earth. But what about on other planets where a day may not be 24 hours and a year is unlikely to be 365 days? To avoid such complexities, I removed the whole concept of Metric Time from the current version of Rome's Revolution. But I will discuss it tomorrow nonetheless.