Re:Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:19PM
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Please don't bring relativity into this except as a fun side note. It doesn't make a meaningful difference for actual objects in space, because they all share basically the same reference frame.
Re:Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)
by kjrfghslkdjfl on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:46PM
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Damn, you're trying so hard to sound smart and still sound dumb as bricks.
Special relativity has nothing to with this conversation. You might as well have said "aliens don't speak english! gotcha!"
> You wanted to make a point that time does not depend on physical location
In addition, you got the point wrong. My point wasn't that time doesn't depend on physical location, at all. My point is the measuring the passage of time doesn't require a calendar or a timezone. Completely different points.
There is no absolute time in spacetime, so your calendar invite from an alien friend would include not only the coordinates on Jupiter but also a time value relative to something. Possibly Earth. Maybe even UTC, as observed on Earth.