History Main / TwoOfYourEarthMinutes

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" has The Security Chief asks the Chief Scientist (both members of an alien race) whether they have taken humans from later than "the Earth year 1917?"

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E21CatchAndRelease "Catch and Release"]], when Peridot ends up holed up in Steven's bathroom she, bizarrely, describes it as having "a fresh hint of Earth citrus", implying that citrus is something she's encountered both on ''and'' off Earth.

* Averted in ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. Sador promises to return in "seven risings of your red giant" sun to the planet Akir to plunder its harvest for his army. Of course that does equal an arbitrary measurement of time we humans call a week.

-->'''King Lrrr:''' This concept of "wuv" [[YouMakeMeSic confuses and INFURIATES us!]]

-->-- '''Rose Lalonde''' [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002993 in]] ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

* ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'' uses a variant; Jeb is heard remarking that some vitally-needed technical data to let the Kerbals and their new neighbours exchange scientific and cultural data in a medium other than paper will take "two ''local'' days". [[spoiler:Except that they're not actually ''local'' days, but EarthThatWas days.]]

* Spoofed in ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon''. The Queen of the eponymous moon-dwellers boasts that her civilization has existed for millions of "Gamma-Spans", and hastily exposits that a Gamma-Span is [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy "roughly equivalent to one of your Earth years."]] Though the Moon is the one place in the universe which is guaranteed to have ''the same'' average duration of "years" as Earth.

** One bizarre example from before [[Creator/KAApplegate Ms. Applegate]] [[EarlyInstalmentWeirdness got her act together]] has Andalites making reference to "twelve Earth minutes" despite ''no humans being anywhere nearby''. In later books Andalites simply use "minutes" or "feet" in a way that suggests a TranslationConvention (especially as at least one of them doesn't even know Earth exists).

** One bizarre example from before [[Creator/KAApplegate Ms. Applegate]] [[{{Retcon}} got her act together]] has Andalites making reference to "twelve Earth minutes" despite ''no humans being anywhere nearby''. In later books Andalites simply use "minutes" or "feet" in a way that suggests a TranslationConvention (especially as at least one of them doesn't even know Earth exists).

* In a ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode where Planet Express is hired to transport candy hearts, one of the receiving aliens notices that one heart has spelled love as WUV, "with an Earth W!"

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E21CatchAndRelease "Catch and Release"]], when [[spoiler:Peridot]] ends up hiding in Steven's bathroom, she, bizarrely, describes it as having "a fresh hint of Earth citrus", implying that citrus is something she's encountered both on ''and'' off Earth.

** 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.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': An alien claiming jurisdiction over a planet the station orbits, Epsilon III, says he will give Sinclair "ten of your hours to stand aside." The alien was reading from a phonetic script produced in a hurry; unlike the other aliens, he didn't actually know English at all.

* In SI Units, (nearly) all the base units were updated to provide a "fundamental" reference (for example, one second is defined in relation the frequency of radiation coming off a specific configuration of an atom, and a meter is defined as the distance light travels in relation to a (fraction) of a second). So those units could be accurately obtained somewhere off Earth.

-->'''Pella:''' There's a [[DeadManSwitch switch]]. When the door is closed, every forty-eight hours Dorian must say a code word to reset the timing.\\

*** A non-canonical 1966 feature film implied that there were precisely 50 rels to an Earth minute, making one exactly 1.2 seconds.

* Averted in ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. Sador promises to return in "seven risings of your red giant" sun to the planet Akir to plunder its harvest for his army. Of course that does equal that arbitrary measurement of time we humans call a week.

* Averted in ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. Sador promises to return in "seven risings of your red giant" sun to the planet Akir to plunder its harvest for his army.

-->'''Pella:''' There's a switch. When the door is closed, every forty-eight hours Dorian must say a code word to reset the timing.\\

** The Arquellian message displays a timer labeled "Earth Time Remaining", counting down the hour.
--->'''Arquellians''': Return [[MacGuffin the Galaxy]] to us or Earth will be destroyed. [[ApologeticAttacker Sorry.]]

** Many episodes have characters use the word "solar" before a time unit to indicate that the Earth unit is being referred to.

* [[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 little knives" and "they boil them for twenty of their Earth minutes."

* In ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'' the Wintersmith makes itself a human body, goes into an inn, and orders dinner. It then triumphantly declares "I have eaten the human sausages", and the waitress informs him that they're pork, thank you very much.

* Averted in Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. Sador promises to return in "seven risings of your red giant" sun to the planet Akir to plunder its harvest for his army.

* Averted in Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. Sador promises to return in "seven risings of your red giant" sun to the planet Akir to plunder its harvest for army.