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Create a time standard for not-on-a-celestial-body. Never mind planetary rotations and incidental exposure to sunlight. Let's just go metric. I suggest kilosec
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Create a time standard for not-on-a-celestial-body. Never mind planetary rotations and incidental exposure to sunlight. Let's just go metric.
I suggest kilosecs and megasecs. A wake-sleep cycle is about 100ksecs. Schedule work reporting cycles to megasecs. Be done with all the rest of it.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Create a time standard for not-on-a-celestial-body I mean, you can do this. We’ll still need a separate standard for each body. Particularly as they get farther apart.
- LegionMammal978 3y agoWe've had this since the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time But it's not possible to directly measure your own coordinate time relative to a distant reference frame, so there has to be some way to express proper time at your location. And for roughly-comoving observers at a given location (say, on the surface of the same astronomical body) to coordinate their measurements of proper time, they need a common standard.