Focus Mean Time (FMT)

Also known as Business Time, FMT is the time used by the most wealthy worlds, who also happen to be the most wealthy worlds because they are on business time. An unexplained curiosity of life in the orphan spur of the Sagittarius to which humanity found itself transported during the exodus from Earth, is that a substantial number of worlds have a rotation of precisely 25 hours.

While Focus was not the first discovered world to be found with this rotational quirk, being the foundation stone of the Focus Protectorate it became the benchmark for the rest.

Having chosen the largest and most fertile area in which settlers could spread, the time-zone the government of Focus had chosen to site the capital began to be adopted by other worlds with a 25 hour day, some moving very well established colonies onto entirely new continents in order to communicate, trade and deal with the world which had become a beacon of hope for humanity.

In reality, her day was 25 hours and 12 minutes, but an imperceptibly small 8 thousandths of a second added to a standard second tidied things up perfectly.

A less discussed phenomenon was the fact that one year was precisely 360 days, leading to a welcome rationalisation of the Gregorian Calendar, which had served humanity for some 6 centuries. Citizens of the Focus Protectorate find nothing unusual in the existence of February the 30th.