Mission Time

well, there not on earth, so their days must be 36hr+ long where they are.... i think

that would be 19 days, not 18

maybe that bot is counting 24 HR cycle and anything short is just added to previous.

i say Davids clock was in bad need of a simple calibration ; dont know ,,,i never heard it the first time , but the 2nd showing,, i did ( after reading it here) ,,but wait ,,,,, watch the extended DVD, and it will have it corrected

No matter how complicated or creative, I don't think there is any way to get to a place where that can make sense. And I very much doubt they would calculate their journey time based on the cycle of a planet they've just that minute touched down on. As far as I can make out, it's just another example of sloppy.

...screenwriters... can't shoot them.. or teach them proofreading skills...

updated the OP with another time based puzzle

repairs and makeup, l33pstick time for noomi is included XD

like i said ,,the extended DVD will be corrected

Snorks: Well spotted. Lindelof doesn't know how to read the time either... he is always... LOST in time

All this week is lost in the Bermuda Triangle ... Lindelof Rules: p ... but it sure appears in the blue ray

but as a temporary explanation ... a wizard did it XD

Shambhala: MAGIC.......

LOL David yeah and I remembered your Lindelof meme XDD (that of the rainbow) and btw MAGIC sound like a funny song lol Lindelost you did it again :pp

Interesting... Perhaps an LV-223 day is a week of Earth time. Maybe that is why Holloway wanted to get started as soon as they got there- HeHee!

well 1 week on earth equal to 1 day on ship? lol how that works?

Perhaps it took a week to put David back together, actually make their way into another ship without mapping aids or such. And then, figure out how to program the ship, adapt the cryo-sleep chamber for Shaw, get fuel.. And so on. Would have made the movie way too long... But I'm not being serious at all!

In our own solar system, Mars has something like a two Earth year long orbit. I don't really know about how long a Martian day is in Earth time. I posited (humorously of course) that the rotation of the planet LV-223 takes a week of Earth time. MAJOR jet lag!!

@ aircraftfixer, as someone already stated why would they base their time on a moon they had only just arrived on? They wouldn't.

Geez! I am saying that "they" ARE are using Earth time. A "DAY" on LV-223 is ONE WEEK worth of Earth time- the clock they are working with. The Prometheus arrives before dark and the expedition goes forth the first time. The following dawn, the expedition goes out a second time. But it is ridiculous that "overnight" on LV-223 would be half a week of Earth time. I apologize if I have upset anyone or seemed to use sarcasm. I intended only to play on allinamberclad's post.

Okay I get what your saying ACF but we still have the issues of - David's 18 days, [b]36 hours[/b], 15 minutes. On earth we have 24 hours per day not 36+ - At most it seems they spend 2 nights/3 days on LV-223, which being a moon would assumingly have shorter days than Earth, so the reverse would be true - a week on LV-223 would probably equal a day on Earth. Now taking into account all this and the fact that they were they one Earth week (7 LV-223 weeks maybe) even though we only see at most two nights, it just doesn't make any sense, at all

Eureka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't make any attempt to address the 36 hour issue. But I will now say that IMHO it was just a blooper in the script- Maybe... My whole point was that I agree that the time shown between 25 December and ! January didn't make any sense at all, and I was agreeing with allinamberclad's post. But I didn't come off as humorously intended- to make silly statements that would explain nonsense.

I hope is was just a blooper, And yes the week long expedition doesn't make any sense whatsoever (I'm currently adding it to a chronology of events in the franchise - thats how I noticed it). A pickle indeed.

You would have though someone would have noticed the 36 hour thing?? even Fassbender himself?? unless it's deliberate for some reason? The delay in take off (maybe Shaw put David back together with his body?), you would have thought in that time the 'Deacon' would have found them..

3-4 days to put David back together again, with David instructing, doubtful, a few hours tops.

More silliness, as indeed it would be ridiculous to take Shaw a week to put Davis's head back on. Perhaps the "36 hours..." bit is a nod to the 2000 Ridley Scott film Gladiator. In it there is a line from Maximus to Marcus Aurelius stating that he has been away from his wife and home "Two years, 264 days and THIS morning". What say you?

Could well be, either that or Ridley's going loopy in his later years lol

Eh, but it just doesn't pan out that such an obvious error was overlooked. Yet another mystery, or other thing put into the film to make some of us crazy...

Okay people seem to be getting their knickers in a twist about dates. The Prometheus arrived at LV223 December 21st 2093. It's in big bloody letters at the beginning. Shaw and David leave LV223 on January 1st 2094. The dialogue suggests Prometheus lands later that same day. As for a chronology Snorky, why don't you PM me and we'll talk about dates. Christ knows I have a comprehensive timeline covering events of Alien etc. Yes the diting of the film doesn't seem to make events spread over some 10 days but we aren't sure how long Shaw was learning the ships systems before they left.

Paradox.

Actually b5historyman the crew of the Prometheus are awoken on December 25th, not 21st (thats showing David alone for four days), as supported by Janek putting up the Christmas tree and Holloway statement "It's christmas and I wanna open my presents". Also I am currently writing an extensive chronology on all 10 movies.

Said December 21st 2093 on the print I saw as Prometheus. approached LV223. Since I've only seen the film twice, I kept mental notes. As you can appreciate you can't scribble notes in the dark. Just because Janek put up a christmas tree doesn't make it December 25th either. Since most people tend to put trees up before then at the very earliest the crew were awoken would be the morning of 22nd December. You got no real sense of the time you saw David going about his routine although it would appear to be a day by all accounts.

I will study the film closer when I get a dvd of it. If you want the dates of the Alien films I worked them out years ago. The shortened version of my timeline material first appeared in Facehugger magazine that was produced by the Aliens Fan Club back in the 90's.

To help you out... both Janek and Holloway state "It's Christmas", which infers December 25th, had it been pre-december 25th they would have said "It's nearly/almost Christmas". Also, adding another 3-4 days just makes the time issues in mentioned in the OP even more problematic

As for the dates from the previous films, I've already logged em from studying the movies.

Again, it only infers, not says its December 25th, If it was they would be saying its Christmas Day wouldn't they? Janek putting up a tree and saying he wants to open his presents, well who wouldn't before Christmas day. The truth of the matter is the timeline is a bit wonky anyway. When I compiled the timeline for the original Alien movies it took some working out especially for Aliens and Alien 3 determining what took place between these movies. yes I also did a bit on AvP too but you will already know that as well from one of my other posts. Anyway am siging off as my job requires I have to get up at 5.30 am GMT. You only have to ask, I am not precious about sharing I just expect a credit where its due and that's all...