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What about Belters?

Judging from the extant lang belta vocabulary, Belters are likely on an ISO week date calendar. They have 7 weekday names but don't seem to bother with our months, and they celebrate (a presumably earth calendar based) New Year. (calculating new years day relative to week 1 is probably for them the introductory CS equivalent of calculating easter for us. Seritenyidiye, "a 30-day", exists as a word for month, but probably refers to the earth concept, among those unlucky enough to have to interface with earth calendars.)

Beltalowda showxa ere tim wit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date keya? Beltalowda tili du pati (wit walowda walowda dansa unte walowda walowda rowm unte da adewu "Piyat Minut"?) fo Yitim unte showxa ere Mundiye, Tusidiye, unte kopeng. Amash beltalowda na tenye wowt fo "months" tumang. Imalowda tu inya, tu "legacy", sasa ke?

They refer to time as shifts as well, presumably since work is so crucial. So it seems to imply the shifts are a regular length of time, so a "day" for a worker would be from the beginning of their shift to the beginning of their next shift. It's a little less clear with the Earth/Mars military.

It's easy to use 8 hours for a shift like we do (and 8 hours for sleep), but our shifts are based around day/night, sleep cycles, and our human limits for work within Earth's gravity. That could change on Mars though. Since there won't be weather seasons or agriculture for a long while, work shifts will likely have a bigger influence on the decision rather than the reasons we have them on Earth.

For Beltalowda!

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