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What are the units of time measurement on Gallifrey?

"Spans" are I think used in Neverland.

Are regular seconds/minutes/hours used anywhere?

Are there any other examples of time measurement units? --Tangerineduel / talk 14:48, July 8, 2012 (UTC)

Well, certainly the one thing Big Finish writers assail you with throughout Gallifrey is the microspan. It's never precisely defined — but, my God, do they love that term. It seems to be not exactly minutes or seconds, but something in between.

AS for other examples of time measurement, you might start with the (admittedly incomplete) category:Units of time. Obviously the "biggest" DWU time measurement is the Dalek rel, something equally as vague and equally as ubiquitous as the Gallifreyan microspan.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:36: Thu 26 Jul 2012 

I didn't even realise we had a category for that!

Maybe I'll have to revisit The Invasion of Time where they're waiting for stuff to happen and stuff's urgent. Maybe there's mention of units of time there.

Rel seems to double as a measure of speed and other things. At least microspan they grab to term and run with it. --Tangerineduel / talk 07:34, July 26, 2012 (UTC)