Dating system (The End of the World)
By the year 5,000,000,000, a dating system was used by humans. It succeeded (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) the Gregorian calendar, (PROSE: Instead of You [+]Loading...["Instead of You (short story)"], et. al) and was used near-contemporaneously with the Old Calendar system. (PROSE: Lives of the Rich and Thin [+]Loading...{"page":"61","1":"Lives of the Rich and Thin (short story)"}) In one account, a police report from 5,000,000,023 used the former system. (PROSE: Judge, Jury and Executioner [+]Loading...{"page":"188","1":"Judge, Jury and Executioner (short story)"})
The year 5,000,000,000 itself was known as 5.5/Apple/26. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) Other known dates, albeit without a translation, were 89/Feather/50 (AUDIO: The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook [+]Loading...["The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (audio story)"]) and 4.8/Pomegranate/12. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"]) 5.4/cup/16 was seemingly the date of Peace Treaty 5.4/cup/16. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Has Its Time","page":"181","chaptnum":"5","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"266","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})
22/3/9/4.2/Acorn (PROSE: Analog [+]Loading...["Analog (short story)"]) and 30139_APPLE_C were possibly related to this system. (PROSE: Duck Pond Mystery Solved [+]Loading...["Duck Pond Mystery Solved (short story)"])
