This is a star-referenced time, not a civil clock.

Hypothesis

Time becomes more universal when anchored to the sky rather than convention.

What Star Time Is

Star Time is Local Sidereal Time: a measure of Earth’s rotation relative to the stars. It expresses orientation and phase, not urgency. The display is computed from UTC plus longitude and updates as Earth turns.

What Star Date Is

Star Date marks position in the sidereal year cycle since 1970-01-01 UTC. It is a simple scalar and label that stays consistent across longitudes, providing a shared annual phase reference alongside Star Time.

Why This Exists

Civil time optimizes coordination between people and systems. Star Time optimizes orientation and context by referencing the sky.

Novel Aspects

• Phase-based time.
• Universal without claiming absoluteness.
• Expansion-tolerant.
• Non-coercive temporal framing.
• Infrastructure-independent.

Benefits

• Works anywhere with position.
• Sky-aligned scheduling.
• Shared reference beyond borders.
• Conceptual clarity.

Limitations

• Not metaphysically absolute.
• Depends on longitude.
• Precision is observational, not atomic.
• Informational and interpretive only.

Privacy Note

Location is used only to compute orientation. Session-only storage is the default. User control is respected.