regulation-changes

Updated: May 23, 2025

Then, realizing that he never, in his own thoughts, addressed himself as "sir," he turned. "I beg your pardon?" It was the first officer, wearing a Terran Federation Space Navy uniform of forty years, or about ten regulation-changes, ago. That was the sort of thing he had taken for granted before he had gone away. Now he was noticing it everywhere.

H. Beam Piper - Graveyard of Dreams