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Old 02-02-2019, 05:33 AM   #8
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Timekeeping without referents

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Originally Posted by Dalillama View Post
There are miniature suns drifting in the endless winds. When they drift near your floating island, or vice versa, you get light and heat in proportion. It's possible that more organized civilisations can steer in some fashion to maintain adequate (for them) levels.
Then the realistic answer is probably you don't need to worry about it, because everybody starved or froze when there weren't any nearby for a while, or baked when there were too many and they sterilized everything.

If conditions are stable enough not to worry about that, then counting harvests or breeding seasons or whatever of whatever it is you are eating works fine for the collect taxes and release terms of enlistment stuff.
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