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It certainly does raise a forward thinking issue and that is networking across planets and TZ handling. TZ's are already a PITA what with leap seconds. Then t
by Zenst 6y ago
It certainly does raise a forward thinking issue and that is networking across planets and TZ handling. TZ's are already a PITA what with leap seconds.
Then there is defining standards on Mars, 24hour days kinda not going to translate, so again, more forward thinking needed. As for Mars GPS, bit of a way off, but I'm sure the good old atomic clocks will work.
I guess the job title of "Systems Engineer of Time" may become a reality one day after all.
- seiferteric 6y agoKind of makes me wonder about local time on a space ship going some significant % of the speed of light. Time itself would be at a different rate than back home. Perhaps we need to introduce the concept of a space-time zone.
- wongarsu 6y agoThe most practical solution is probably to introduce a global time beacon, like a satellite broadcasting it's own time, or everyone counting the flashes of some known pulsar. Then you have one time reference everyone agrees on, it just ticks at different speeds depending on how fast you are moving. Luckily so far the practical propulsion concepts we have max out around 10% the speed of light for reasonable amounts of propellant, so we have a couple decades left to figure this out.
- zokier 6y agoWe have few time standards that already take relativity into account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Dynamical_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Dynamical_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_Coordinate_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_Coordinate_Time
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