If we ever meet aliens that also happen to be advanced enough to trade with, we will have already solved this issue ourselves because we’re cruising around in t

If we ever meet aliens that also happen to be advanced enough to trade with, we will have already solved this issue ourselves because we’re cruising around in the Enterprise and needed a new timekeeping system by that point, or the Enterprise came to us and they will have their own timekeeping system that we can adopt. Before then? Eh. Objectivity is overrated and an imperfect time system is a nice reminder that life doesn’t revolve around us and what we want.