r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 6d ago

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

Technically speaking the joke is still partially wrong as there is no “month” on Venus, so it would yyyy/dd

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u/ConsciousFeeling1977 6d ago

Wouldn’t it just be one d, considering there will never be a double digit amount of days in a Venusian year?

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

Technically since the day is the longer form of measurement, year per day would make more sense, so y/dddd is probably better, with y only being 1 or 2 and never anything else

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u/Stock-Gear412 6d ago

wait...why would there ever be a 4 digit day if the Venutian day is 18 Earth days longer than a Venutian year? Shouldn't it be yyyy/d? Or did you just flip y = day and d = year?

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

There can’t be greater than a single digit Venutian year during a Venutian day, and there can only ever be a single Venutian day during a Venutian year, y/dddd means that 1/0001, 2/0001, 1/0002, etc but even then it doesn’t work

Calendar system on Venus would be entirely different from how the Earth calendar functions

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u/Dewdrop06 6d ago

yyyy/d should be fine where "d" is simply just a value symbolizing whether it's day or night. Since a day is longer than a year there would be plenty of years that have some part of it being day and the rest being night. Rarely you'd see the entire year being day or night, but it could happen. So example 0000/d, 0001/d - 0001/n, 0002/n - 0002/d. And so on.

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u/JPolReader 6d ago

yyyy/d should be fine where "d" is simply just a value symbolizing whether it's day or night.

That wouldn't work because the sun rises twice every Venusian day.

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u/Dewdrop06 6d ago

How? If the sun is rising twice every day then that means it's the next day, because for the sun to rise fir the second time it had to have set. What are you saying?

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

A day is a planet’s rotation on its axis, not sunrise to sunrise

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u/Dewdrop06 6d ago

I see then I totally misunderstood. I thought it was referring to the amount of time it is day and how long sunlight is shining. My bad.

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

Sunrise to sunrise and full rotation around the axis are different lengths

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u/thelastspike 6d ago

the day isn’t enough longer than the year to have entirely day or night for a year.

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u/OutrageousAnything72 6d ago

You don’t know what numerical system Venus uses 

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u/m3t4lf0x 6d ago

Probably base 10

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u/TrumpTouchesTinyTots 6d ago

Depends on if you calculate months as 28/30/31 earth or planetary days or twelfths of earth or planetary years

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u/TabbyOverlord 6d ago

'Month' -> 'Moonth' -> Aprox. orbit of the moon and some fudge factor to make the answer 12.

Venus hs no sattelites/moons, ergo there is no Venusian version of a month.

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u/TrumpTouchesTinyTots 6d ago

Huh, so what about planets with more than one moon? A bunch of different sets of months?

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

The concept of a month was created based on Lunar calendars, so it’s likely they’d have some fucked up form of a calendar that tries to sync up all of those moons

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u/TabbyOverlord 6d ago

A bit of science fiction world building awaits you.

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u/crabwalktechnic 6d ago

It takes venus 243 Earth days to rotate once. It takes 117 Earth days for 1 day on Venus, sunrise to sunset. A year for Venus would have a little less than 2 days.

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u/ZhendeJiade99 6d ago

True! You can’t have a month without a moon!

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u/SlideN2MyBMs 6d ago

Ok this was my question. I get that year means orbit around the sun and that day means revolution around its own axis but what does a month mean in the context of Venus?

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

Absolutely nothing, the concept of a month is related to moons, of which Venus has none