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Keeping track of time in a meaningful way when your polity controls a dozen worlds and has trade relations with at least 5 dozen more is hard. Thus was invented the [[Standard Galactic Time Unit|Larana/Standard Galactic Time Unit]]. With that system, interplanetary (and interstellar) activities have a common neutral time system to synchronise things such has [[FtL communication|Larana/Faster than Light Communication]], while planet-side affairs typically use a mix of the expressing an absolute unit in the largest SGTU subunit that’ll fit in a local day, to which is added a SGTU duration after the local normalised sunrise.
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For example Earth’s 30 September 2065, 13:12 UTC would be `3D13.65/1` (or `18F.3D13.6556.6AD9` for full specificity) in interstelar communication, but would be refered to as something like `3D13.6/1L+1b1af/1` "on the day that starts on `3D13.6/1` according to the `L`ocal standardised day, at `1b1af/1` past local standardised midnight.
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Note however that, as of 2376, Earth, despite being a signatory of the GTCO still seldom use SGTUs in planetary affairs, oft chosing to use it’s legacy base 60 time system |