When is Now?

I’m still not sure why you’re calling some time ‘the present’? That’s not my present?

It’s best if you don’t think that way. You can’t go back to wherever you cam from, so there’s not really any reason to consider it your time anymore. For your own mental health, think of it as a…destroyed county. One you can visit, but it isn’t yours.

But there are plenty of people you interact with that do have a ‘now’.

Employees of the TEAs live in their own timeline. They get up every day and go to work. They have a now. When they interact with other people at their agency, it’s always with the people from the same time. When they use a time machine to visit Haven, or do their job in the past or future, it’s only one thread of them that goes, and the other stay, but that thread then returns to the exact time they left and they have ways to make sure all of them remember it. That’s their life.

When MTPs started interacting with other MTPs, it was completely chaos.

Thus, one of the reasons for Haven, and synchronizing things. But the ‘now’ that was picked as just picked randomly in each timeline, including Haven. Acknowledging this ‘now’ means you can continue to interact with people in a linear manner. Both here, and in other timelines.

So everything is exactly in sync?

You may notice that the days of the week are not the same. The day Haven was founded, January 1 HY, was a Thursday in 1920 in Commonwealth, a Tuesday in 1980 in Legacy, and a Sunday in 2040 InterAct.

On Haven, it was decided that Jan 1, 0 HY, was a Friday, as it wouldn’t be fair to have the day of the week match any specific timeline, and Friday was what it would have been had the 3000 calendar been in use.

There is also the slightly awkward situation of the fact that, while all Leap Day have been identical to this point due to the twenty-year gap spacing, 2100 is not a leap year, which mean the calendar date would be permanently offset by a day from then on. The first timeline to reach this will be InterAct, and the solution is likely to be that InterAct just ‘jumps ahead’ a day on Haven, it just pretends that February 29th, 60 HY doesn’t exist and everyone commuting from there to Haven just skips forward 24 hours.

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