A New Format

Perhaps the best way to address varying sidereal rotations (and planetary seasons), the numerous different calendars as noted above and the fact that interplanetary travel is currently very time consuming, is to create a completely new format.

If we use a base 10 format these concerns will all be addressed. Each number position is 10 times the value to the right of it, hence the term base-10. We already use base 10 to count years, decades and centuries but the units of seconds, minutes, hours, days and months do not have a consistent relationship with each other and therefore need to be rethought.

For example, the year cannot be divided into 12 28-day months since 12 times 28 is 336, well short of 365. The lunar month (as defined by the moon's rotation) is not 28 days but 28.3 days. The year is defined in the Gregorian calendar as 365.2425 days but has to be adjusted with leap days and leap seconds.

To maintain some form of our current sense of time, this sample table includes something to represent Century/year/decade, Month/week/day, and Hour/minute/second but in a base 10 format. It would look something like this:

Century – Decade - Year	Month – Week - Day	Hour – Minute - Second
9 9             9         9	9             9         9	9              9           9
An example date would be
2029.	989.	976

 If we couple three current time parameters together and separate those from the next set of three time parameters, and the last three get separated as well, then the example in this table would look like this:

 2029.989.976

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