Ah, but what if your spaceship going to Mars is travelling at near enough to the speed of light that time dilation becomes a significant factor? When you're counting the Earth days on the voyage, do you count them as you experience them, or how people on Earth experience them? For sanity's sake, it'd pretty much have to be the former, because otherwise you could be doing the daily mitzvot twenty times a day or more, and it might be Shabbat several times a day.
Story idea! :
... Just then the Shabbat ten minute warning sounded. We quickly ducked into the airlock, cycled it, and took off our suits. We ran to the galley, where Deb was getting the candles ready for lighting. While the rest of the crew gathered, I punched some numbers into my PDA. The Shabbat alarm went off, and I quickly shut off the device as all work onboard stopped--except for Joel's, up on the bridge, since his work as pilot meant keeping us all alive.
After the ceremony, I grabbed a quick snack of cheese and crackers and chatted with Steve. Forty minutes later the Shabbat all-clear sounded, and it was back to work. ...
Anyway, using the subjective time would mean that you'd get out of sync with Earth pretty much immediately, but it would at least be consistent.
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Date: 2004-09-08 10:35 am (UTC)Story idea! :
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Just then the Shabbat ten minute warning sounded. We quickly ducked into the airlock, cycled it, and took off our suits. We ran to the galley, where Deb was getting the candles ready for lighting. While the rest of the crew gathered, I punched some numbers into my PDA. The Shabbat alarm went off, and I quickly shut off the device as all work onboard stopped--except for Joel's, up on the bridge, since his work as pilot meant keeping us all alive.
After the ceremony, I grabbed a quick snack of cheese and crackers and chatted with Steve. Forty minutes later the Shabbat all-clear sounded, and it was back to work.
...
Anyway, using the subjective time would mean that you'd get out of sync with Earth pretty much immediately, but it would at least be consistent.