History Main / Microts

** In UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, comics stated that Kryptonian time was divided into "dendars", their equivalent of a minute that consists of one hundred seconds.

* A careful look at the clocks in ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'' shows that they have sixteen hours instead of the usual twelve. Which makes sense for a civilization of robots as 16 = 2[[superscript:4]] or 10000 in binary.

-->-- ''Series/RedDwarf'', "Emohawk: Polymorph II"

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* TropeNamer ''Series/{{Farscape}}'s'' alien characters commonly use 'microt', 'arn' and 'cycle' in place of 'second', 'hour' and 'year' (roughly). John Crichton (the only Earth character in the series) picks up on it, and often counters with nonsense of his own. They also use "solar days" (a real world NASA term to describe a planet's local rotation) even in situations where there isn't a planet to refer to. Some of that may be handwaved by Crichton having TranslatorMicrobes.
* The original 1979 ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' series used "microns" for seconds, "centons" for minutes (or for hours in the series pilot), "centars" for hours, "sectons" for weeks, and "yahrens" for years.

* Re-imagined ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' averts this, except for some documents visible onscreen in Armistice Station in the Miniseries, which use original-series terminology. Spoken dialogue and other writings have "years", "minutes", etc.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', Daleks use "rels" to indicate a short period of time, which varies between about one and two seconds from one episode to another.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The Kinitawowi are shown to use hanaka as form of time measurement in "Emohawk: Polymorph II". Kryten says a hanaka is exactly the same as a minute, which somehow leads the Cat to calculate that five hanaka is twenty-eight hours.

*** The planet in "Time and Again" used rotations, intervals, and fractions. And Hindu-Arabic numerals.
*** Averted in "Prime Factors" when an alien gives a measurement based on the distance between the sun and her home planet, and Harry Kim mentally converts it to light years.
*** A recently de-assimilated Seven Of Nine once [[NoSocialSkills attempted to participate in a conversation]] regarding children by remarking that "[[WouldHurtAChild Children]] [[HiveMind assimilated by the Borg]] are placed in maturation chambers for seven cycles". [[EpicFail That went over about as well as could be expected]]. The exact length of the "cycles" she mentioned was not stated, and considering the nature of the Borg could be anywhere from seconds to years (though probably closer to the latter).
* Parodied in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Wormhole X-Treme!" where one of the characters in the ShowWithinAShow used 'bleems' as a measurement of time comparable to years. This was quite likely a subtle case of good-humored ribbing via [[ActorAllusion Actor Allusion]], since by by this point Ben Browder and Claudia Black, the former lead stars of trope namer Farscape, had joined Stargate SG-1 as regular cast members.

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