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Right now there are no people outside Earth's gravity well for significant time. As long as the Earth exists and you can communicate with people there, there's
by eternityforest 4y ago
Right now there are no people outside Earth's gravity well for significant time.
As long as the Earth exists and you can communicate with people there, there's no practical reason not to use an earth based reference clock.
- benlivengood 4y agoMost of the accurate timekeeping is needed by computers, not humans. We can always define local human time with an affine transform from a coordinated monotonic clock.