What does "GD" stand for in the UED SCBW Cinematic?

[Visions of Khas]

but it is possible that the UED has been creating propaganda that says they are much older than they are.

Sounds very 1984.

Really, it's just something the cinematic artists placed there to make future's earth seem more foreign to us. They didn't generate an entire new system of reckoning just for this small bit. They may fix it the next time we encounter the UED.

On the other hand, it may be some stardate, like from Star Trek. They didn't initially have a true reckoning system when they began using stardates; it was only later down the line that it was made into an actual system.

EDIT
One other thing I thought of. The UED refers to the Koprulu conflict as the Great War for Domination (or GD for short). Perhaps the war has gone on for 872 days by the time of Stukov's death. But of course, his birthdate would make no sense whatsoever. So see my above comments.

[Norfindel]

It's definitely a date and not a location. And I assume the 'death' around 822 was a typo, and it meant 872, the current year.

Huge typo, unless he died before he born .

[vIsitor]

Ooh! Maybe they count backwards like B.C. dates, and GD actually stands for Galactic Domination? The UED is so bureaucratic it plans its own victories centuries in advance!

[Roobster]

The propaganda suggestion doesn't sound below something the UED would do.
An idea I find interesting, what if some secret order or something similar that was key to the UED's creation was founded in the year 1629? They would pick that date for the start of the new calendar to honor the order.

[Visions of Khas]

An idea I find interesting, what if some secret order or something similar that was key to the UED's creation was founded in the year 1629? They would pick that date for the start of the new calendar to honor the order.

Oooh. I vote this. I severely doubt it, but I support it. :3

[mr. peasant]

This is probably the mother of all speculations but what if the GD denotes the formation of the UPL? What if the Terrans' timekeeping has been inaccurate since arriving in the K-Sector (e.g. 1 year = 1 revolution around the sun = >525,600 minutes/365 days). This would explain the apparent timeline discrepencies such as the unexpectedly high Terran population size within a few hundred years of colonization and why the Terran characters look physically older than their chronological age (not to mention why they have since dramatically aged in the few years between SC1 and SC2).

[MattII]

This is probably the mother of all speculations but what if the GD denotes the formation of the UPL? What if the Terrans' timekeeping has been inaccurate since arriving in the K-Sector (e.g. 1 year = 1 revolution around the sun = >125,600 minutes/365 days). This would explain the apparent timeline discrepencies such as the unexpectedly high Terran population size within a few hundred years of colonization and why the Terran characters look physically older than their chronological age (not to mention why they have since dramatically aged in the few years between SC1 and SC2).

How in hells name can a civilisation capable of building a fleet of hyperdrive equipped vessels (that's a UED date, not a K-Sector one) 'not' have accurate timekeeping, I mean, heck even the Egyptians worked out the leap-year.

[trace wm]

Well when first and second contact are dumped on your head along with interplanetary war, you might forget to wind the clocks.

[mr. peasant]

How in hells name can a civilisation capable of building a fleet of hyperdrive equipped vessels (that's a UED date, not a K-Sector one) 'not' have accurate timekeeping, I mean, heck even the Egyptians worked out the leap-year.

Because their basis of time (the Earth's around the sun) is the same as our current one. In the K-Sector, they don't have that. They would measure it based on the rotation of one of their planets (likely Tarsonis) around their sun, which would give a different time.

[Kimera757]

Except the human brain has a natural 25 hour (yes, 1 more than expected) cycle. Every sleeping animal has a cycle of about 22-26 hours (varies by species). 24 hours itself is extremely rare, only hamsters have that. The end result; if the time difference was off by more than a few hours, you'd notice.

While clocks become slow and so forth, they don't fall off by that much. Also, ATLAS survived the journey, and would have kept track of time. Even if it forgot the date, it would still know how long an hour was (due to the way current computer time technology works).

Besides, Tarsonis has a 27 hour day, that's not that far off from 24 hours.