Editing Stardate (section)

== Decimal point ==
[[File:Stardate chronometer.jpg|thumb|Ship’s chronometer]]Stardates usually are expressed with a single decimal digit, but sometimes with more than one. For instance, ''The Next Generation'' episode,"[[The Child (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Child]]", displays the stardate 42073.1435. According to ''The Star Trek Guide'', the official writers' guide for the original series:

:For example, 1313.5 is twelve o'clock noon of one day and 1314.5 would be noon of the next day. Each percentage point (sic) is roughly equivalent to one-tenth of one day.

Likewise, page 32 of the 1988 ''Star Trek: The Next Generation Writer's/Director's Guide'' for season two states:

:…the digit following the decimal point counts '''one-tenth of a day'''.

This was demonstrated by the ship's chronometer in the ''TOS-Remastered'' episode, "[[The Naked Time]]," and by Captain Varley's video logs in the ''TNG'' episode "[[Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Contagion]]". The latter displays several stardates with two decimal digits next to corresponding times.