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Time is a [[theoretical measurements | theoretical measurement]] created by [[earth]]ling [[homosapiens]] who thought that the [[Earth]] was [[flatearth | flat]]. [[Discrepancies]] in [[travel]] were observed. An uneventful [[trip]] from [[PointA]] to [[PointB]] in the [[summer]] appeared to take longer than an identical trip took in the [[winter]]. Because the [[seasons]] changed, and the star [[Solar System, The | Sol]] moved off beneath the [[equator]]. It disturbed people to think that [[days]] were either getting shorter, or that they were getting slower. They invented time. Time was invented to be a [[constants | constant]]. One [[seconds | second]] equaled one second; sixty equaled a [[minutes | minute]]; thirty-six hundred seconds, or sixty minutes, equaled an [[hours | hour]]; twenty-four hours equaled one day. Seven days equaled a [[weeks | week]]. That's as constant as time ever got. Four and a half weeks or so equaled a [[months | month]]; ten months equaled a [[years | year]]. People began to measure time. It wasn't too many [[decades]] before [[June]] arrived with the snow. Something had gone wrong. So the calendar was adjusted: two months were added to equalise the length of a calendar year to a [[terran year]]. [[Centuries]] passed before people noticed that something was still wrong. [[LeapYears]] were invented: every fourth year, a given year--divisible by four--was three hundred sixty-six days in length. Ultimately, every hundredth year which would otherwise been a leapyear, neglected to be a leapyear; every fourth century, that hundredth year became a leapyear yet again. Every century, the years X04, X08, X12, X16, X20, X24, X28, X32, X36, X40, X44, X48, X52, X56, X60, X64, X68, X72, X76, X80, X84, X92, and X96 were leapyears; the year Y00 following X96 wasn't a leapyear, except in the years [[AD400 | 400]], [[AD800 | 800]], [[AD1200 | 1200]], [[AD1600 | 1600]], [[AD2000 | 2000]], [[AD2400 | 2400]], and so on. It was all very confusing, and people were all very confused; people were confused anyway, so they embraced it. Regrettably, the people were confused enough that they misunderstood the simple [[mathematical formulae | mathematical formula]] involved, and by AD2000, began to assume that the [[twenty-first century]] had begun. There were various reasons for that '[[logic]]', none of which made any real sense to anyone of any real [[intelligence]]. But even the intelligent homosapiens became confused in matters of [[fourth-dimensional travel]]. Having worked out an acceptable calendar--albeit one which required [[microseconds]] to be added and subtracted from [[Boulder, Colorado | Boulder's atomic clock]] every few years--homosapiens began to find new problems with time. One of them was [[relativity]]. [[Superlight travel]] did terrible things to time. Or, more accurately, since time was still nothing more than a theoretical constant designed to measure [[distance]], it did terrible things to homosapien [[observers]]. It moved. It bent. It warped into [[Mobius strips of unease]]. It [[disintegration | disintegrated]] and [[reintegration | reintegrated]] as something entirely else. And that was just a matter of superlight travel, which wasn't really that big a deal. Bigger a deal was the [[emigration]] from and [[immigration]] back into a given dimensional area--[[universions]], [[extradimensional]] locations, [[LosAngelinoid areacodes]], and other such [[theoretical quasilocales]] which looked great on paper but failed to make any sense to the onsite observer at all. ''Id est'': a homosapien travelling from its universe to the [[Lost Kingdom]] and back often travelled also through great spans of otherwise unaccountable time. Years. Decades. Centuries. [[Millennia]]. Time. Homosapiens travelling from [[El Que]] to a universe from which they hadn't come from were at least as likely to move very, very far into the [[Future, The | future]], or into the [[Past, The | past]].

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