Galactic Mean Time?

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Galactic Mean Time?

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I was just curious... because I like to know everything... at least I like to "know a lot".
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In a new game the Galactic Mean Time is 2084004:HH:MM:SS. I *was* thinking that maybe that was year 2084, day 4, HH:MM:SS.

But I did an experiment (before I threw away my last savegame... reasons are in another post) to deliberately verify this... the time advanced to 208437x:HH:MM:SS... in other words more than 366 days (actually I think I just took it up to day 368 or something).

Therefore it is NOT YYYYDDD:HH:MM:SS, but something else. Two million eighty four thousand and four days from... something. What "Epoch" is the Oolite canon based on? Or is it arbitrary?
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See this thread here.
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Thank You!
Question answered.
I never thought to search for "2084004".
(and it was an interesting thread).
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