Pandora has the same rotation period as Earth

[Boba Fett]

The first time I noticed the times of the video logs it bugged me a little. It's not only the clock but also the dates. Even if it didn't take 10 seconds of the film for 10 seconds of local time to pass, it would still still break the date as a different numbers of days would pass on Pandora than on Earth.

However, it's possible that they add or remove days in the calendar to fix any deviation from the current date on Earth, or use another calendar with the same year length but different day length.

As for the equivalence between film time and log time - it could be just an inaccuracy. And you don't have any evidence that they use 24 hour cycle for the local time. It could as well be 25 or 26 hour. All we know is that 06:00, 08:00 and 09:00 are in the morning, and that 17:00 etc. are in the evening. One thing is certain - the day length is similar.

And it makes sense, because I think that Polyphemus plays a significant role in making the floating mountains float, and a close orbit would certainly help. But I'm not sure if closer orbit wouldn't mean more quakes and volcanoes like on Io? Polyphemus is smaller, more comparable to Saturn, maybe we ought to look at Mimas? Mimas has an orbital period of 22 hours and 37 minutes. Sounds about right. And unlike Io there's no significant geological activity.

By the way, why are they using 1/24 of a second as the last part of the time in the logs? Is that a common time format?