Talk:Units of time

Given the many DIVISIONS of Cycle, and the disagreement of terminology (Megacucle is used as everythign from hour to years) I suggest makign this the page for the various verions of cycle. Decacycle, megacycle, Gigacycle, etc.

And fore refernece, TF's first use of Cycles was Target 2006, whcich established that 1 cycle was EXACTLY 2 Earh Hours. -Derik19:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't orns be added to this chart as well? I don't want to muck with that coding but otherwise I'd add it in. --ZacWilliam 10:42, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

That chart makes things out to be too clear cut. For example, I'm sure Megacycle had other uses in Beast Wars that don't correspond to years. And here to muddy up the waters even more is Furman's explanation of time units in the IDW-verse, from this thread on the IDW boards:

• A nano-klik is approximately one Earth second
• A klik is about 1.2 Earth minutes
• A cycle is about 1 hour 15 mins
• A mega-cycle is about 93 hours
• A deca-cycle is approx 3 weeks
• A stellar-cycle is 7.5 months (there or thereabouts)
• A Meta-cycle is about 13 months

So, uh, yeah. --KilMichaelMcC 11:41, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Stellar cycle sounds more like a year to me, given it sounds like the 'cycle' or orbit of Cybertron around its sun. --FFN 12:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

• Yes, and...?
• Nothing prohibits Cybertron from going through one complete orbit of its' sun every 7.5 months. Nor from having a "day" 93 hours long [Venus has a 225-EarthDay "year" (7.4 months...) - and a 243-EarthDay DAY]. - SanityOrMadness 15:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Found the definition of Quartex, as Wheeljack brought up in the first G1 episode. 'Quartex' means a three-month period commencing on January I, April 1, July 1 or October 1 in a calendar year.

Uh, I believe that is the definition of a quarter, with an R, and it's an Earthen definition anyway, not a Cybertronic one. --Steve-o 00:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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The main article's "Specific unit definitions" is sorted by name, thus we can see the differences of time units with same name in different continuity.I think I'd like to put the "Specific unit definitions" by different continuity here for ......errr, I don't know how to say, for convenience maybe?  :) -- TX55 11:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC) *revision at 10:16, September 12 2007 (UTC)*

Units of Time

Marvel Comics

Unit Name	Unit Duration
Breem	8.3 minutes
Orn	undetermined duration
Vorn	83 years

Marvel UK comics

Unit Name	Unit Duration
Cycle	2 hours
Groon	~1 hour
Joor	undetermined duration

Beast Wars

Unit Name	Unit Duration
Nano-klik	~1 second
Milli-Cycle	undetermined duration
Cycle	~1 minute
Mega-cycle	~1 hour
Day	~20 hours
Deca-cycle	~30 days
Stellar cycle	~400 days

IDW universe

Unit Name	Unit Duration
Klik	1.2 minutes
Cycle	1 hour 15 minutes (1.25 hours)
Deca-cycle	~3 weeks
Mega-cycle	93 hours
Meta-cycle	13 months
Stellar cycle	~7.5 months

Miscellaneous

Unit Name	Unit Duration
Astrosecond	.498 seconds
Quartex	undetermined duration

Tables

I really like the tables as opposed to the current way it's organized. The tables look neater and read a little more clearly to me. Jyuu 20:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I've attempted a compromise. I think it looks pretty spiffy.--Rosicrucian 20:49, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how I feel about it... Jyuu, were you voting simply for a layout that uses tables, or for sorting them by continuity? I have two problems with Rosi's edit: First, I think that particlar table style isn't attractive for this purpose... I'd rather something all white with lines in between cells. But, my bigger problem is that the table layout doesn't jive well with the wildly-varying lengths of the unit descriptions. Some of the rows are ten times taller than others, and that isn't pretty. FWIW, I thought the definition list format it had before looked nice, but then again, I'm the one that started it that way in the first place. --Steve-o 22:06, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Eh, I'm not married to it. It was very easy to do, didn't take much time, and was done all in one edit pretty much expressly for easy reverting.--Rosicrucian 22:18, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Though comparing the two the current table allows you to see many more of the units at a time. At several different resolutions.--Rosicrucian 22:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Tables and by continuity both. I'm not terribly picky about which kind of tables though - Rosi's are just as nice as the samples here on the talk page. It's just my thought that anyone who is probably looking for what units of time mean might want to know what they are within a specific continuity (as I did when wondering about IDW time units), rather than sifting through the whole list for whatever might apply. --Jyuu 09:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

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