NEW STARDATE STANDARDIZATION PROPOSAL

 NEW STARDATE STANDARDIZATION PROPOSAL

Stardates will be based around beats and centibeats, discussed in a previous document about replacing sexagesimal seconds with decimal "beats and centibeats".

It takes its name from the fictional time measurent system found in Startrek.

According to Wikipedia, since writers and producers have selected numbers using different methods over the years, some more arbitrary than others, which makes impossible to convert all stardates into equivalent calendar dates, especially since stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place; the only thing this New Stardate will be faithful to the original is that it is measured from decimal fractions of a day.

"For example, xxx3.5 is twelve o'clock noon of one day and xxx4.5 would be noon of the next day."

The "days", due to the SI, actually represent kilobeats. And from the viewpoint of Swatch Beat units, considering its time zone abolition, "-.000" represents midnight in Biel, which is Swatch's HQs.

This new Stardate is not relative the concept of Earth's day and year, but rather relative to a certain point in time. It is absolute in regards to the days and years, whether hypothetical or real, of other planets and celestial bodies.

There are two types of New Stardates.

The first one, called "Christian Stardate (CSD)", measures the beats since 1st of January 0001 AD. (As far as for 7th of December, 2023 AD, I haven't found a website that measures the difference whose first date goes before 1901, probably because of Unix epoch units).

The second time, called "Coronavirus Stardate (C" or simly "Ronadate (RD)", measures the beats since 1st of January 2020 AD. The Stardate is calculated by the difference between 1st of January 2020 AD and today plus 1. Put this in perspective in the rule of midnight in Biel (@000). Therefore, 1st of January 2020 is written as "RD 0001.0" while 31st of December 2019 is written "RD 0000.0", If the rule is:

@000 = Day X, 00:00 in Biel, Day X-1, 18:00 in Lima

@250 = Day X, 06:00 in Biel, Day X, 00:00 in Lima

@500 = Day X, 12:00 in Biel, Day X, 06:00 in Lima

@750 = Day X, 18:00 in Biel, Day X, 12:00 in Lima

@000 = Day X+1, 00:00 in Biel, Day X, 18:00 in Lima

It's @212 = 7/12/2023, 23:05 in Lima, 7/12/2023 05:00 in Biel

Ronadate Example: 

7th of December, 2023, 23:05 = Day difference + 1 = 1436 + 1 = 1437.XXX

23:05 in Lima = 05:05 in Biel = @212

Therefore, 7th of December, 2023, 23:05 = Ronadate 1437.212

Conversion dates from TDB69's birthday (14th of October, since 2020 until Ronadate exceeds 10000.0)

14th of October 2020 = RD 0288.70764

14th of October 2021 = RD 0653.70764

14th of October 2022 = RD 1016.70764

14th of October 2023 = RD 1381.70764

14th of October 2024 = RD 1749.70764

14th of October 2025 = RD 2114.70764

14th of October 2026 = RD 2479.70764

14th of October 2027 = RD 2844.70764

14th of October 2028 = RD 3210.70764

14th of October 2029 = RD 3575.70764

14th of October 2030 = RD 3940.70764

14th of October 2031 = RD 4305.70764

14th of October 2032 = RD 4671.70764

14th of October 2033 = RD 5036.70764

14th of October 2034 = RD 5401.70764

14th of October 2035 = RD 5766.70764

14th of October 2036 = RD 6132.70764

14th of October 2037 = RD 6497.70764

14th of October 2038 = RD 6862.70764

14th of October 2039 = RD 7227.70764

14th of October 2040 = RD 7593.70764

14th of October 2041 = RD 7958.70764

14th of October 2042 = RD 8321.70764

14th of October 2043 = RD 8688.70764

14th of October 2044 = RD 9054.70764

14th of October 2045 = RD 9419.70764

14th of October 2046 = RD 9784.70764

14th of October 2047 = RD 10149.70764

Dates before 2020 can be calculated using negative numbers, however, it hasn't been decided yet if the decimal digits stay the same or are changed due to the sign inversion:

14th of October 2019 = RD -0078

14th of October 2018 = RD -0443

14th of October 2017 = RD -0808

14th of October 2016 = RD -1173

14th of October 2015 = RD -1539

14th of October 2014 = RD -1904

14th of October 2013 = RD -2269

14th of October 2012 = RD -2634

14th of October 2011 = RD -3000

14th of October 2010 = RD -3365

14th of October 2009 = RD -3730

14th of October 2008 = RD -4095

14th of October 2007 = RD -4461

this text was originally made in 7.12.23.

PROPOSAL TO REPLACE THE SEXAGESIMAL SECOND WITH THE "CAESIUM BEAT"

 PROPOSAL TO REPLACE THE SEXAGESIMAL SECOND WITH THE CAESIUM BEAT 

(A NON-CAESIUM BEAT IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE A THOUSANDTH PART OF A DAY. THEREFORE A NON-CAESIUM CENTIBEAT IS 1/100000 DAYS.)

The beat takes its name from Swatch Internet Time, famous for proposing to abolish time zones and dividing the day in 1000 equal parts.

108/125 = seconds/cCsb; 432/5 = seconds/Csb

1,063,962,010,417 Hz is the integer caesiumbeat

1,063,962,010,416.66666666 Hz is the non-integer caesiumbeat

(1,063,962,010,416.66666666 is 9192631770 * 432/5)

(CAESIUM) BEAT ((Cs)b)= The duration of 1,063,962,010,417 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.

9192631770 Hz *108/125 = 7942433849.28 1/centi-caesiumbeats (cCsb)

A meter is now the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 125/32377585464 cCsb (125/32377585464 centi-caesiumbeats = 1/299792458 * 125/108)

108/125 = seconds/cCsb; 432/5 = seconds/Csb

PROPOSAL TO GET RID OF SEXAGESIMAL SECONDS IF THE UNITS HAVE TO BE TRULY METRIC.

kilobeat another name for a day

hectobeat 1/10 of a day

decabeat 1/100 of a day

beat 1/1000 of a day

decibeat 1/10000 of a day

centibeat 1/100000 of a day

millibeat 1/1000000 of a day

microbeat 10^-6 of a day (thousandth of a millibeat)

nanobeat 10^-9 of a day (thousandth of a microbeat)

a megabeat equals 1000 days (2.737851 years)

a gigabeat equals a million days (2,737.851 years)

All derived units that involve the second will be replaced with centibeats.

m/s * 108/125 = meters per centibeat (speed, velocity)

kg/m/s * 108/125 = centipascalbeat (dynamic viscosity)

1/s/s * 108*108/125/125 = radian per centibeat squared (although gradians can be used too)

this text was originally created in 7.12.23

Geodesy and geometry of the Decimal Number Zones

 Geodesy and geometry of the Decimal Number Zones

The new Decimal Numbering Zones (DNZ) system is based on the concept of dividing the day into 1000 units called "beats", which are equivalent to 1 minute and 26.4 seconds, and the key is that this time is universal and does not depend on the sexagesimal system of time zones to avoid calculations of time differences.

It consists of dividing the surface of the Earth into 40 zones, so that each of them corresponds to 25 "swatch beats" of the day. We call each of these parts "numbering zones" and not "time zones" because while a time zone assigns the same number to approximately the same position of the sun, the Swatch Internet Time system has the same number worldwide, and what's different is the numbers that are assigned to the 4 key points of the day: Midnight, sunrise, noon, sundown.

Since a day is a complete rotation of the planet and a complete rotation has 400 gradians (i.e. 360°, but this system is decimal and not sexagesimal, therefore, it is convenient to use the system of hundredths of a degree and convert each degree notation into gradians), dividing 400g by 40, results in each time zone having an angular amplitude of 10 gradians (i.e. 9° sexagesimal). Since the meridians are not parallel, a time zone has a variable width. It is maximum at the equator with a width of 1,001.875 km (i.e. a thousand kilometers and a bit) and it narrows towards the poles. Considering the corresponding volume up to the Earth's axis, it can be compared to a slice of orange or tangerine.

Prime meridian and reference time

The time zone system and the geographic longitude system need a prime meridian to be applied on the Earth's surface, since, due to the rotation movement, all points on Earth are equal in terms of longitude and time. For technical, political and historical reasons, the meridian chosen was that of the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, in London.

The Biel Meridian was chosen as the "zero meridian" to measure Internet Time in 1998, but it was not until 2024 that this concept was used for the DNZ system. Meridians are identified by two elements: their measurement in degrees and their position with respect to the zero meridian.

The city of Biel is located at 8.05gE (eight point zero five gradians east) compared to the Greenwich meridian, so in the new DNZ system It was decided that they would be in the same DNZ, the DNZ "between 0 and 10 degrees East" and therefore, in that time zone, @000 would be considered midnight, @250 would be "sunrise", @500 noon, @750 sunset... The DNZ of Biel and Greenwich is called "DNZ of Biel-Greenwich (BG)".

For example, the longitude of the city of Lima is 76°W, or 84.4 degrees West, which means that it is between 80 and 90 degrees West, which is the "DNZ of Lima".

Since this and the Biel-Greenwich numbering zone are separated by 8 DNZ's, add 1 to the 8, which will give you 9 (the "numbering zone difference number (NZDN)"), and multiply it by 25 (the difference number of "beats" on each cosecutive DNZ), and you will get 225. That is the hour that will be considered "midnight" in the Lima DNZ. From there, the other hours are taken: @475 is sunrise, @725 is noon, and @975 is sunset.

That is the formula to find the NZDN of your local DNZ. If it is west of the BGNZ, add it, if it is east, subtract it. If it comes out less than zero, subtract it from 1000, since it is a cyclical system.

In the cycle of the day, in addition to midnight, sunrise, noon and sunset, which are the "4 key points of the day"​, there are 225. They add another 4 that are located in the exact middle of the intervals between each "Key Point". This makes the day divided into 8 exact parts, each with a duration of 125 beats. Their main objective is for all 40 world time zones to have at least 2 of the 8 key points that end in 00, or at least 4 that end in 0. For example, in the Lima DNZ, using the above information, @350 would be "mid-morning", and @600, "mid-afternoon".

This new system is more exact than the current Time Zone system, because it is always the same number throughout the planet, the only thing that changes is the numbering of the 8 key points in different regions. 40 time zones are more exact than 24. And it is better to use a time system that is better adapted to our numbering system.

NOMENCLATURE OF THE 40 NUMBERING ZONES

The numbering zone of Lima is called "Lima DNZ" but it can also be called "90 gradians West of BNZ (Biel Numbering Zone) or BZ (Biel Zone)". The same way, the DNZ of Athens can be refferred to as "20 gradians East of BZ"

The following table contains two number ranges, and one place name. The first number range represents the longitude of the numbering zone. The second number range actually represents the swatch beat time when it's midnight and dawn, respectively in each of these 40 time zones. The names are of the places which are contain within the designated Numbering Zone.

WEST:

200-190 500-750 Wallis and Futuna

190-180 475-725 Palmerston

180-170 450-700 Kiritimati

170-160 425-675 Tahiti

160-150 400-650 Ivvavik

150-140 375-625 Pitcairn

140-130 350-600 San Francisco and Vancouver

130-120 325-575 Sonora and Las Vegas

120-110 300-550 Guadalajara

110-100 275-525 Tabasco and Veracruz

100-90 250-500 Tegucigalpa, Honduras; San Jose, Costa Rica

90-80 225-475 Lima and New York

80-70 200-450 Caracas and Punta Cana

70-60 175-425 Asuncion, Paraguay

60-50 150-400 Curitiba

50-40 125-375 Rio and Salvador

40-30 100-350 Fayal (Western Azores)

30-20 075-325 Reykjavík

20-10 050-300 Canarias Zone

10-00 025-275 Madrid

EAST:

00-10 000-250 Dijon and Amsterdam (also known as Biel-Greenwich)

10-20 975-225 Nuremberg, Prague and Berlin

20-30 950-200 Athens and Belgrade

30-40 925-175 Gerson

40-50 900-150 Medina

50-60 875-125 Qatar

60-70 850-100 Ashgabat

70-80 825-075 Samarkand, Dushanbe and Kabul

80-90 800-050 New Delhi

90-100 775-025 Kathmandu

100-110 750-000 Aceh

110-120 725-975 Kuala Lumpur, Cambodia, Laos and Singapore

120-130 700-950 Hong Kong and Wuhan

130-140 675-925 Taipei, Taiwan

140-150 650-900 Nagasaki

150-160 625-875 Tokyo

160-170 600-850 Melbourne and Canberra

170-180 575-825 Pohnpei

180-190 550-800 Palikir and New Caledonia

190-200 525-775 Auckland