Of clocks and time changes
As the star destroyer ISS Chimaera is currently in orbit above Dathomir, there has been no need to change the ship's clocks today. But on earth, where today is the closest Sunday to the local equinox, many cultures in the Northern hemisphere put their clocks forward an hour in the early hours of this morning. (Or back in the Southern hemisphere.) The Chimaera used to have a number of emergency use combined clocks and lights, not dependent on the ships main power supply, designed to provide light and a time-check if combat damage were to disrupt the ship's main lighting systems. When ships' time was synced to that of a planet, it was sometimes necessary at the local equinox.to send an ensign round the ship to re-set the these clocks to stay consistent with local time. Last time this happened, some of these clocks failed to re-set and continued to show the wrong time. The Grand Admiral noticed and ordered the faulty clocks thrown out of the airlock, asking the young officer,...