Bayonet wrote:
In the US in @, standard time and time zones were the outgrowth of the railroads and the telegraph. They needed a way to make the trains run on time and not crash into each other on time. Prior to that, each town had it's own time, generally derived in some way from solar time. It just didn't matter what time it was.
yes, that`s why I proposed a calendar based on days rather than hours or something. i dont remember any angel not dealing with first lifers or not belonging to the Stoners talking about minutes, hours, or weeks or months, for that matter. It may be that, as you said, when you are eternal, who gives a damn?
Bayonet wrote:
Date keeping and the intricacies of the terran calendar were driven by the interaction of the terran seasons and the needs of farming. It was important to know when it was safe to plant in the Spring. With no seasons, it doesn't matter. You plant when you feel like it, and harvest when the crop is ripe, an observable condition. I would expect harvests to be staggered with relation to each other, at random.
I was referring actually more to record keeping of the crops rather to the actual influence of time on the harvesting. It wasn`t clear in the post, sorry about that.
what i mean is, that humans in heaven are actually the peasants of a feudal regime, so they pay to their liege (and church, hehehehe... this work has an irony bomb in every single corner you turn) with the product of their work. That needs to be kept track of, if only for accounting proposes. And we know there is accounting, given the remark of the master mason to Michael after one specially disastrous report. So, in order to keep your books in order, you need to keep track of time somehow, even if it is a greater granularity record than ours. So farmers would need to seed and harvest in regular intervals, in order for the products to be stored/distributed in even intervals, in order for then to be accounted for in a predictable manner. A chaotic system is possible, but is it desirable?
