Time Keeping

Time on the RBS was originally measured based on the rotation of the Torus, which of course rotated to simulate gravity in the space environment.

Despite the technology of artificial gravity generators having advanced throughout the universe and now used on the RBS, time is still measured based on the rotation if only by legacy.

Measuring Time

 * 1 tick = basic unit of time, can be divided into milliticks, nanoticks, etc
 * 1 cycle (Cyc) = 100 ticks, time for station to rotate one segments distance
 * 1 rotation (Rot) = 10 cycles, one complete rotation of the Torus
 * 1 fiscal period/day (Fi-day) = 50 rotations, locked to an arbitrary standard, effectively a day
 * 1 deciterm (DT) = 10 fiscal days, effectively a week
 * 1 term = 10 DT/ 100 days, effectively similar to a  financial quarter
 * 1 decaterm (dec) = 10 terms / 1000 fi-days, used similarly to a year
 * 1 hectoterm (hecto) = 100 terms. A fairly long time. With new life expectancy, a human turning two hectos might experience a crisis akin to real humans turning 40

Simulated Day/Night Conditions
The RBS spends half a Fiscal Day, every Fiscal Day, with public lighting systems set to a very low illumination, simulating a day/night cycle a planet might have.

The entire station experiences dimmed lighting in public areas, but still with sufficient enough lighting for most species to navigate walkways and find things such as Terminals.

The purpose of this simulation is not only for the sake of an atmosphere that helps entities psychologically when living in an artifical environment, but also for the benifit of nocturnal species, or species that simply prefer the dark for whatever reason.