History Main / TwoOfYourEarthMinutes

** A distance variation occurs in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven The Galileo Seven]]". When Captain Kirk orders Lieutenant Sulu to have the shuttle Columbus open its course by 2 degrees, Sulu says that the shuttle will "be overlooking more than a dozen terrestrial miles on each search loop."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E5TreehouseOfHorrorIII Treehouse of Horror III]]" show has the town overrun by zombies. High overhead, aliens Kang and Kodos watch patiently, observing "Soon the human race will wither and fold. Like the Earth plums we've seen on the Observe-a-scope."

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* Literature/ChakonaSpace: Different stories play with this thanks to genuine aliens as well as Terran colonies on distant planets that, for obvious reasons, use a different clock and calendar.
* Website/TheOnion: "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/alien-world-to-help-out-syria-since-this-one-refus,27620/ Alien World To Help Out Syria Since This One Refuses To]]", in which the aliens claim they can resolve the situation in Syria in "less than 20 of your Earth minutes".
* One WebAnimation/HomestarRunner cartoon involves [[{{Egopolis}} Strong Badia]] starting its own space program. Its first mission involves sending "15 Earth dollars on a round trip to the closest reaches of space" in the hopes that, according to Strong Bad's very poor understanding of the Theory of Relativity, it will have multiplied to one million dollars by the time it returns.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'': In "Love and Rocket", Planet Express is hired to transport a shipment of candy hearts to Omicron Persei VIII, and Queen Ndnd notices that one heart has spelled love as WUV, "with an Earth W!"
-->'''King Lrrr:''' This concept of "wuv" [[GrammarCorrectionGag confuses and INFURIATES us!]]

* On ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', the Propulsions tend to talk like this. For example, in "Jet Cooks Dinner", Celery says that 6 Bortronian months is the equivalent of one Earth hour.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' third ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' show has the town overrun by zombies. High overhead, aliens Kang and Kodos watch patiently, observing "Soon the human race will wither and fold. Like the Earth plums we've seen on the Observe-a-scope."
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Trapper Keeper" featured [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} a robot from the future]] named "Creator/BillCosby" who kept slipping up and putting "hu-man" in front of nouns.

** Episode "The Lorelei Signal". Every 27 years, a starship is lured to a planet where female aliens drain the life force of the male crew members. While explaining the situation to Lieutenant Uhura:
--->'''Head Female Theela''': To survive, we must vitalize each 27 years of your time.
** "The Pirates of Orion". When Captain Kirk asks the Enterprise computer the location of the nearest supply of the drug strobolin, the computer says "Beta Canopus. Four solar days away at maximum warp."
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E21CatchAndRelease "Catch and Release"]], when Peridot ends up holed up in Steven's bathroom she describes it as having "a fresh hint of Earth citrus", implying that citrus is something she's encountered both on ''and'' off Earth.

** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E16TheGamestersOfTriskelion The Gamesters of Triskelion]]". After the Providers teleport Captain Kirk into their underground facility to face them, they tell him "We are one thousand of your meters beneath the surface" of the planet Triskelion.

[[TruthInTelevision Happens to some degree in real life]], in situations such a Brit talking to an American about "two of your gallons" - [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage but this is exactly because Britain and the US use the same word to mean different volumes]]. (1 Imperial gallon == 1.2 American gallons). Likewise, just as "minute" comes from the Latin for a small division, the aliens may have a time unit named after their word for a small division. But if not, there is little point specifying that it is an 'Earth Minute'... Unless it's mocking or derogatory, like most real-life uses of the trope in metric vs. imperial situations. "Your years" makes more sense as the duration of a planet's orbit around its sun would be different for each world.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E An old advert for Smash]] (which was basically powdered potato starch) had robotic aliens laughing at humans for the time-consuming way they prepared mashed potatoes - including "they peel them with their metal knives" and "they boil them for twenty of their Earth minutes."

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* Creator/EdWood's B-Movie ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''
** An alien refers to "a can of your gasoline." Apparently, gasoline exists nowhere else, or he's digging at the quality of Earth gasoline. Or, maybe he's just poorly written.

** In "Geometry of Shadows", the Drazi are undergoing their regular change in government - which involves, rather than ballot boxes, fistfighting. Ivanova, trying to keep peace on the station, decides to lock one of the two groups up for the rest of the "cycle", after which it will all be over - only to be told that a cycle doesn't mean a week as she assumed, but a whole Drazi year - which is 1.2 Earth years.

** The original series ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978''
*** It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the episode "Greetings From Earth" where the Terran colonist asks, "Wait just a minute, what's a 'centon'?"
*** Likewise, in "Experiment in Terra", when Starbuck tells a different colonist he'll be back in a "centar":
--->'''Brenda:''' Whatever that is, I hope it's less than an hour.
** In the re-imagined series ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', they generally use what the audience would consider standard measurements: they've mentioned that a "day" has 24 hours in it, 365 days a year. It's not clear if this is some sort of universal fleet time that the Twelve Colonies agreed upon as an average of their local times or if it is based on Caprica-time. One exception is that their unit of distance is an "SU" (Solar Unit) instead of an "AU" (Astronomical Unit) - which in real life is based on the distance between Earth and the sun. Seeing as they're from twelve different planets in a double binary star cluster, using an "AU" wouldn't make much sense.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Justified when the HumanAliens are implied to be the descendants of colonists from Earth.

* In the ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' episode "Flight of the War Witch," a Draconian reports tracking a Terran starfighter which is traveling "at a fraction of their light speed." ''Their'' light speed? Terrans have ''their own'' light speed?
* Spoofed in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' as Xander twists his and Willow's infidelity to their significant others to be their fault - Buffy comments "Your logic does not resemble our Earth logic."

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]] has the Daleks referring to time in "Earth minutes", even when they are talking among themselves and there are no humans present.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]": Mavic Chen tells the council of Daleks and delegates that it has taken "fifty Earth years" to aquire the taranium for the core of the time destructor.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen The Tomb of the Cybermen]]": When Victoria asks the Doctor how old he is, he replies "Well, if we count ''in Earth terms'', I suppose I must be about 400... yes, about 450 years old".

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster "The Time Monster"]] inverts it. The serial featured a rather phallic device (seriously, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_Time_Monster_1-6_avi-20080703-075830_3722.jpg it must be seen to be believed]]) for detecting the Master's TARDIS which was calibrated in feet and miles... only they were Venusian feet and miles.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]": Arak (a human inhabitant of Metebelis III) tells the Doctor (a Time Lord from Gallifrey) that his ancestors were human colonists who crashed on Metebelis III "433 Earth years ago".
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit "The Creature from the Pit"]]: Erato tells the Doctor to hold the beam for "five of your seconds" — even though the Doctor is no more from Earth than it is.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]": Romana refers to "relative Earth date 2250" when talking to the Doctor, to explain why two Time Lords are talking to each other in Earth years.

-->'''ADRIC''': The year is 2526 in the time scale you call Anno Domini.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]": The Doctor informs Peri that they are in "the year that ''you would calculate'' as 1985".
** "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]": The Sontaran leader tells Gareth that "in the year you would call 2001" he will lead the Earth defence against a Sontaran invasion.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E3TerrorOfTheVervoids Terror of the Vervoids]]": The Doctor informs the Time Lords in the courtroom that the events he is showing him via the Matrix take place "in the Earth year 2986"
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]": The Doctor tells Mel that strange matter was discovered "in your Earth year 1984".
* ''Series/LostInSpace'' episode "Hunter's Moon". Professor Robinson is told that [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the hunt he will be forced to be a part]] of will last sixty Earth minutes.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963''
** "Nightmare": One of the POW's arms is completely shattered. While the Ebonite interrogator is talking to two United Earth officers, he says that the POW will not regain the use of his arm "for a year or more in your measure" (i.e. Earth time).
** "Second Chance": The alien tells a retired physicist that an asteroid is going to hit his home planet of Empyria. When the physicist asks him when the collision will occur, the alien says "In your time scale, 82 years".
* Played for laughs in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Emohawk";
-->'''Kryten''': They're giving us five hanaka to decide.\\
'''Rimmer''': How long's a hanaka?\\
'''Kryten''': Curiously enough, the same as one Earth minute.\\
'''The Cat''': Five hanaka? That only gives us twenty-eight hours!
* ''Series/SheSpies'' episode 11. "He was supposed to be here three of your American days ago."

* Referenced repeatedly in ''Series/StargateSG1'', usually by aliens. When one Ba'al says (via hologram) that Gen. O'Neill has one day to turn over a prisoner, O'Neill replies, "Is that one ''Earth'' day, or...?" before the Ba'al rolls his eyes and shuts off his end of the hologram.
** Referenced again in the season nine episode "Beachhead", when Col. Mitchell gives a Prior "thirty of our 'Earth minutes'" to shut down an active Stargate, prompting the following exchange:

** Shows up fairly frequently in the early seasons. For example, in "The Tok'ra, Part 1":
---> '''Daniel:''' ''(referring to Selmak's dying host Saroosh)'' How old is she?\\
'''Yosuf:''' She will be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 203 of your years]] in a few of your days.
** In [[Film/{{Stargate}} the original movie]] Abydos is suggested to have a day/night cycle half again as long as Earth's when Daniel says "the gate is guarded 36 hours a day."
** Nicely averted in "Secrets", set exactly one ''Abydonian'' year after "Children of the Gods"; the length of time Kasuf agreed to keep the Abydos Stargate buried for, only uncovering it again so Daniel and Sha're could hopefully return on that date.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
** A strange example comes from "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]": The Excalbian recreation of Abraham Lincoln asks if they still measure time in minutes, to which Kirk responds that they "can convert to it".
** This exchange from "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E10JourneyToBabel Journey to Babel]]". Ambassador Sarek reminds Dr. [=McCoy=] that Vulcan has years of different length than the Earth.

** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E15LetThatBeYourLastBattlefield Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]". Commissioner Bele comes from the planet Cheron, but he's familiar with Earth time units.
--->'''Commissioner Bele''': For fifty thousand of your terrestrial years, I have been pursuing Lokai through the galaxy.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E21TheCloudMinders The Cloud Minders]]". The leader of the planet Ardana notes that its hours are not the same length as Earth hours.
--->'''High Adviser Plasus''': I've been here nearly an hour of your Earth time.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E10TheCorbomiteManeuver The Corbomite Maneuver]]". Balok is a member of the First Federation, but after scanning the Enterprise's records he knows how long Earth minutes are.
--->'''Balok''': We therefore grant you ten Earth time periods known as "minutes" to make preparations.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E2TheEnterpriseIncident The Enterprise Incident]]". The 2nd in command of a Romulan ship gives the Enterpise an ultimatum, thoughtfully translated into Earth time units so they can understand him.
--->'''Sub-commander Tal''': We give you one of your hours. If you do not surrender your ship at the end of that time, your destruction is certain.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais Who Mourns for Adonais]]". Apollo tells Captain Kirk how long ago his people lived on Earth.
--->'''Apollo''': We knew your Earth well, five thousand of your years ago.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth Assignment: Earth]]". Gary Seven is an agent from an alien planet who is on a mission on Earth. While talking with someone he thinks is a fellow agent he refers to "Earth days", as opposed to days on the alien planet.
** Many episodes have characters use the word "solar" before a time unit to indicate that the Earth unit is being referred to. This doesn't entirely make sense, as other planets in the Sol system (e.g. Mars) have days and years of significantly different lengths.
*** "W[[Recap/StarTrekS2E14WolfInTheFold Wolf in the Fold]]". Commander Spock says "Computer, digest log recordings for past five solar minutes." and the Enterprise computer says "Murders on Rigel Four occurred one solar year ago."
*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble With Tribbles]]". Commander Spock says "The battle of Donatu Five was fought near here twenty three solar years ago."
*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]". Spock says "Warp drive and deflectors will be out for a solar day." and "At least one solar day."
*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]". Spock says "...it will take exactly seventy four point one solar hours for the storm to pass."
*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]". Star Fleet Command tells Captain Kirk "Inauguration ceremonies, Altair Six, have been advanced seven solar days."
*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E17ThatWhichSurvives That Which Survives]]". An Enterprise crewman tells Mr. Spock "...our estimated time of arrival is eleven and one half solar hours."
*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E12TheDeadlyYears The Deadly Years]]". Captain Kirk transmits a message including "...all Federation ships will avoid this area for the next four solar years."
*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E8IMudd I, Mudd]]". The android Norman says "We shall continue on our present course for approximately four solar days."
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
** In the episode "Peak Performance", a Ferengi attack vessel happens upon a Federation wargames exercise. Ferengi [=DaiMon=] Bractor misinterprets the situation, believing that the ''Enterprise''[='=]s inferior sparring partner, USS ''Hathaway'', must hold some secret value. He offers to let the ''Enterprise'' go unharmed if Picard will agree to hand over the ''Hathaway'' to him. He punctuates the demand with, "You have ten of your minutes".
** Humans don't use the Gregorian Calendar anymore, but have switched to the "Stardate" system. Apart from being an interplanetary system of time, it also seems to take into account the relativistic effects of measuring time on planets separated by light-years. In the Season 1 finale, they thawed out three humans who had been cryogenically frozen in the 20th century. When they asked what year it was, Data stated that it was "the year two thousand three hundred and sixty-four, by your calendar" (he said it out in long-form because he was unfamiliar with it). This was the first time that a solid date had actually been given for any events in ''Star Trek'', so fans were finally able to date other events by working backwards from the fact that ''Next Generation'' Season 1 is set in 2364. The general principle is that one TV season equals one year, so ''Deep Space Nine'' ended in 2375, and ''Voyager'' in 2377.
** Alien units of measurement have been mentioned in the background throughout the franchise. Specifically, the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''/''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' spinoffs established that the Klingons use a unit of distance measurement called a "kellicam", used in similar scales as kilometers (a starship may be "5,000 kellicams away from us", but like kilometers it isn't useful for interplanetary distances). The Klingon calendar is based on the "Year of Kahless" system, dating from the birth of the Empire's founder. Kahless died around 822 A.D. by the Gregorian calendar, but in 2373 Worf mentions that it is the "Year of Kahless 999" - meaning that a single Klingon "year" seems to be roughly twice as long as an Earth year.
* A background element used quite extensively in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', which casual viewers might not even pick up on. The Bajorans asked the Federation to establish a Starfleet presence on ''Deep Space Nine'' (to help them run it and discourage the Cardassians from returning), but it is ''not'' a full "Starfleet military base" in the sense that it is not legally considered Starfleet territory. This comes up in several episodes but specifically in the premiere, Odo directly explained to Quark that he can still run his casino tables on the station because it is subject to Bajoran law, not Federation law. A quirk of this is that the space station actually runs on ''Bajoran time'', not standard Starfleet time. They do still record their logs using the Stardate system, but a Bajoran "day" consists of 26 hours, not 24 hours. They might call this something else in the Bajoran language or divide it up into different increments, but whatever translation matrix they're using renders an "hour" as an Earth hour, but their "day" is based on Bajor's rotational period, which contains 26 of those. This is actually a pervasive background principle throughout the entire series: apart from someone saying "you have 26 hours to vacate this area", the times that events are scheduled are based on a 26 hour day, i.e. someone will be invited to dinner at "18:00 hours" despite this being an unusual time to have dinner in a 24 hour day cycle.

* ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' episode "Visitors from Beyond the Stars". Space aliens come to the Earth in 1885 to steal all food supplies. When the aliens enter a town, they order the human inhabitants to gather all livestock within 10 Earth miles of the town.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''
** A weird and somewhat baffling variation occurs in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan To Serve Man]]", when Michael Chambers, onboard a flying saucer in transit asks his Kanamit [[spoiler:captors]] what time it is, only to be told there isn't one, because there's no way to measure time in space, to which Chambers responds "What time is it ''on Earth''?
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E95HocusPocusAndFrisby Hocus-Pocus and Frisby]]", after Somerset Frisby is lured into a FlyingSaucer, the aliens' leader tells him that they will be taking off in "fourteen minutes, by your measure of time."

** A strange example comes from "The Savage Curtain": The Excalbian recreation of Abraham Lincoln asks if they still measure time in minutes, to which Kirk responds that they "can convert to it".
** This exchange from "Journey to Babel". Ambassador Sarek reminds Dr. [=McCoy=] that Vulcan has years of different length than the Earth.

** "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". Commissioner Bele comes from the planet Cheron, but he's familiar with Earth time units.

** "The Cloud Minders". The leader of the planet Ardana notes that its hours are not the same length as Earth hours.

** "The Corbomite Maneuver". Balok is a member of the First Federation, but after scanning the Enterprise's records he knows how long Earth minutes are.

** "The Enterprise Incident". The 2nd in command of a Romulan ship gives the Enterpise an ultimatum, thoughtfully translated into Earth time units so they can understand him.

** "Who Mourns for Adonais". Apollo tells Captain Kirk how long ago his people lived on Earth.

** "Assignment: Earth". Gary Seven is an agent from an alien planet who is on a mission on Earth. While talking with someone he thinks is a fellow agent he refers to "Earth days", as opposed to days on the alien planet.

*** "Wolf in the Fold". Commander Spock says "Computer, digest log recordings for past five solar minutes." and the Enterprise computer says "Murders on Rigel Four occurred one solar year ago."
*** "The Trouble With Tribbles". Commander Spock says "The battle of Donatu Five was fought near here twenty three solar years ago."
*** "The Doomsday Machine". Spock says "Warp drive and deflectors will be out for a solar day." and "At least one solar day."
*** "The Empath". Spock says "...it will take exactly seventy four point one solar hours for the storm to pass."
*** "Amok Time". Star Fleet Command tells Captain Kirk "Inauguration ceremonies, Altair Six, have been advanced seven solar days."
*** "That Which Survives". An Enterprise crewman tells Mr. Spock "...our estimated time of arrival is eleven and one half solar hours."
*** "The Deadly Years". Captain Kirk transmits a message including "...all Federation ships will avoid this area for the next four solar years."
*** "I, Mudd". The android Norman says "We shall continue on our present course for approximately four solar days."

* The ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series mostly has a very well-thought-out galactic culture, so it's truly strange in the third game, when everyone starts going out of their way to give units of time in "solar days" (it's unlikely to be TranslationConvention, either, since they're all round numbers). Why not Citadel Days, or Thessia Days? No explanation is ever given. This point is spoofed in [[http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=090511 this Awkward Zombie strip]].

** A solar day on Mars (called a "sol") is 24 hours 39 minutes 35.244 seconds long. Therefore, people working with Mars Rovers have to go by a working schedule based on sols, not days -- they start work about 40 minutes later every Earth day, and use Martian "hours" and "minutes" that are about 1.0275 times the length of their Earth equivalents. Many people working on the MER project had wristwatches specifically calibrated to Martian time.
** Similarly, a Mars year is around twice as long as a Earth year (686.98 Earth days or 668.5991 sols), split up into 4 seasons of varying lengths. For scientific purposes, the beginning of the Northern Spring Equinox of 1955 is considered "Year 1" of the Martian calendar. While many people have tried to create imaginative calendar systems with Earth-like months, the lack of an Earth-like Moon makes such a thing much more arbitrary, so none have yet to catch on. Regardless, it's likely that a future Martian colony would need to use an entirely different timekeeping system than that on Earth, making this trope very much a reality.

** That's even before you get to places like Israel, where they use the Short Scale, just like in the US... Except one thousand million is called a ''milyard''. One million million is still unambigiously called a ''trilyon'', but there's still the [[JewsLoveToArgue inevitable]] agruments over whether one thousand million million is a ''trilayrd'' or a ''quadrilyon''.

* The Kryptonian Jor-El refers to Earth years twice in the first ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' in his {{Video Will|s}}.

* Jor-El does this in the first ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', in his {{Video Will|s}}:

* The {{Trope Namer|s}} ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'', the commander of the Vogon Contructor fleet addresses everyone on Earth.
** He states that demolition of Earth "will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes". Granted, working out a population's units of time just to use it to tell them precisely how long they have before all being killed, and consciously pointing out that they've taken the trouble, is a typically Vogon thing to do.
** He also says "All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years...".

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]]: Just as the gamma radiation is about to strike the Empire State Building, the Daleks declare there are "40 Rels left" then immediately start counting down in seconds. What, is the Rel just the Skaro term for second?[[note]]A [[Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks non-canonical 1966 feature film]] implied that there were precisely 50 rels to an Earth minute, making a rel 1.2 seconds.[[/note]]

** {{God}} tells Adam and Eve that the day they eat from the Tree of Knowledge, they will die. Since Adam lives [[LongLived about 900 years after this]], the general interpretation is that God spoke metaphorically that they would turn mortal. One Jewish tradition, however, says that God was merciful and gave them a "day" in Heavenly reckoning--[[http://biblehub.com/psalms/90-4.htm which is one thousand years]]. Stretching this trope a bit, more liberal interpretations of Genesis suggest that the seven "days" of Creation could also refer to longer periods of time. Though this is largely used to fit evolutionary and astronomical theories, some of these interpretations [[OlderThanTheyThink go back a few thousand years]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1036 SCP-1036 (''Nkondi'')]]. A nganga (African tribal shaman) is talking with one of the spirits trapped in a SCP-1036 doll. When the nganga asks the spirit how long it has been trapped in the doll, it says "Three hundred twenty-six of your years".

** A very silly example in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]]. Just as the gamma radiation is about to strike the Empire State Building, the Daleks declare there are "40 Rels left" then immediately starts counting down in seconds! What, is the Rel just the Skaro term for second?
*** A [[Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks non-canonical 1966 feature film]] implied that there were precisely 50 rels to an Earth minute, making a rel 1.2 seconds.

** Similarly, a Mars year is around twice as long as a Earth year (686.98 Earth days or 668.5991 sols), split up into 4 seasons of varying lengths. For scientific purposes, the beginning of the Northern Spring Equinox of 1955 is considered "Year 1" of the Martian calendar. While many people have tried to create imaginative calendar systems with Earth-like months, the lack of an Earth-like Moon makes such a thing much more arbitrary, so none have yet to catch on. Regardless, it's likely that a future Martian colony would need to use an entirely different timekeeping system then that on Earth, making this trope very much a reality.