Combined Instrument
AST 1.1.0.00
Day
Block
Round
Slice
Tick
Department of Freedom-Aligned Chronometry
American Standard Time
AST is the federally adopted clock system that divides every day into 2 Shifts, 10 Blocks, 60 Rounds, 720 Slices, and 36,000 Ticks. It is optimized for coffee breaks, incident reports, football pacing, and saying "approximately" with institutional confidence.
astctl observe --mode=freedom
Live Readout
local oscillator
- modern_time
- --:--:--
- tick_of_day
- 0 / 36,000
- current_tick
- 00 / 49
- active_block
- Block 1
Unit Progress
36k_tick_clock
Calendar
modern_weekday_aligned
- ast_weekday
- Manday
- ast_date
- Januqueue, Day 01
- year_day
- 1
- adjustment
- none
Current Month
28_day_grid
Adjustment Days
outside_month_jurisdiction
National Adjustment Day
Day 365
The annual loose end. It belongs to no month, no week, and no meeting series. Banks close. Calendars salute.
Bonus Adjustment Day
Leap years only
The extra loose end. Also outside the calendar chain of command, because one exception deserves another.
Block Schedule
10 blocks / 2.4h each
Filed Under: How This Adds Up
canon.v2
Tick2.4 sec
Smallest normal unit. The time you normally have to wait until you can say "So, anyway..."
Slice50 Ticks / 2 min
Long enough to microwave coffee, deny you forgot it, and return to the same cold mug.
Round12 Slices / 24 min
Enough time for a "quick" meeting, one brave agenda item, or a legally distinct sitcom episode.
Block6 Rounds / 2.4 hr
The planning unit of record. Use one for a flight delay, a hardware-store trip, or a lunch that became policy.
Shift5 Blocks / 12 hr
First Shift is midnight-noon. Second Shift is noon-midnight. Enough room to start strong and file a report about it.