Imperium Dating Convention

  This article is from an Out-of-Canon perspective   ''' This socio-cultural article is a stub. You can improve it by adding links, information, sources, and research connected to the topic. ''' Imperium Dating Convention refers to the unified system of year/era codification used within the Earth Imperium.

Origin
Much of the old way of doing things, at least on a grand scale, was lost in the maelstrom of bloodshed and bureaucracy that marked the rise of the Imperium. By the time of the Second Era of the Imperium (beginning c. 1500EI) dates of events pre-Imperium had mostly all been relisted under the Imperium Dating Convention. (TV: The Slow Hand of Fate/PROSE: Parallels/AUDIO: Parallels) The year the Imperium became the system of government for most of the human-inhabited universe was, of course, marked as 1EI.

Days, weeks, months, and years were all standardised based on classic Earth measures. A day was marked as twenty-four hours, a week as seven days, etc. A choice was made in around 400EI to confine all months to thirty days each, leading to a standard Imperium year of 360 days.

There was much rebellion against the new system early on. What good was a twenty-four hour day to people living on a planet where the rotation made a day the length of roughly two weeks? Eventually, things were forced into line and most humans and subjugated peoples thereafter bowed to Imperium wishes.