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Eivind
You mean the "Standard" and the "tenday"?
I read the "tenday" simply as being ten days, basically just spicing up the world a bit by making it less human-centric by removing our current default of a 7-day week.
Exactly how long a "standard" is isn't explained, but from context a standard is clearly MUCH longer than a tenday, so I read it as roughly equivalent to one of our years.
Presumably it refers to one standard year, but it might well be different from our year since it's unlikely that the planet of the founding members of the GC happened to have exactly the same length year as earth do.
I read the "tenday" simply as being ten days, basically just spicing up the world a bit by making it less human-centric by removing our current default of a 7-day week.
Exactly how long a "standard" is isn't explained, but from context a standard is clearly MUCH longer than a tenday, so I read it as roughly equivalent to one of our years.
Presumably it refers to one standard year, but it might well be different from our year since it's unlikely that the planet of the founding members of the GC happened to have exactly the same length year as earth do.
Dillon Grey
It says in one chapter that 5 years = 3 Standards.
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