Did she work out a day-length relative to Earth days? That's what always trips me up.
I guess it's not completely unreasonable to postulate that most Earthlike planets will have days not too far off ours - the Martian sol is very close to an Earth day, and IIRC Venus's originally was when the planet was more Earthlike (Venus's day length apparently varies by half an hour or so depending on the weather???)
But we don't really have any good reason to assume they would, either, and it always seemed to me that for something like Deep Space Nine or a starship, it would make sense to run wildly varying shifts based on different species' natural rest needs, instead of the alpha/beta/gamma 8x3-hour days Starfleet seems to generally use, at least on Human-led missions. There would be other issues with scheduling for that, of course, but figuring out the compromises would be fascinating. Starfleet has catpeople! You wouldn't try to put catpeople on 8-hour work shifts, surely!
Varying month lengths is also fascinating! It's one of those things that's hard for me to wrap my head around, even though some Earth calendars do it (and some users of Earth calendars that don't have variable month lengths would point out that the Gregorian *does*....)
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I guess it's not completely unreasonable to postulate that most Earthlike planets will have days not too far off ours - the Martian sol is very close to an Earth day, and IIRC Venus's originally was when the planet was more Earthlike (Venus's day length apparently varies by half an hour or so depending on the weather???)
But we don't really have any good reason to assume they would, either, and it always seemed to me that for something like Deep Space Nine or a starship, it would make sense to run wildly varying shifts based on different species' natural rest needs, instead of the alpha/beta/gamma 8x3-hour days Starfleet seems to generally use, at least on Human-led missions. There would be other issues with scheduling for that, of course, but figuring out the compromises would be fascinating. Starfleet has catpeople! You wouldn't try to put catpeople on 8-hour work shifts, surely!
Varying month lengths is also fascinating! It's one of those things that's hard for me to wrap my head around, even though some Earth calendars do it (and some users of Earth calendars that don't have variable month lengths would point out that the Gregorian *does*....)