The discussion feels only philosophical, if you don't often work with timezones.
For example airlines doing it right. On your ticket the boarding time is in local time.
The destination have the timezone of the destination. But internally they representing everything
with GMT0, which is not timezone. It is just a 0 offset of global time.
This makes calculations easier and is less error prune. Only if you display or print something,
then it's converted to local timezone.
It's like a definition of coordinate systems. You have the world coordinates and on top you can put
many other coordinate systems with different offsets and angles. If you tell a robot drive to Point 10,
you have also to define on which coordinate system. If you work with a tool, then the tool coordinates helps,
to drive the tool straight in room. By definition Z is swapped. Z+ in World Coordinates means up. In tool coordinates Z+ is down.
Many things we use in real world, are defined by humans. We made the definition of Global Time.
But this does not mean, that we have defined also a timezone for aliens.
I guess they have their own standards and time format with localization.
For us it's important to have our standards, also for Aliens.
For example airlines doing it right. On your ticket the boarding time is in local time.
The destination have the timezone of the destination. But internally they representing everything
with GMT0, which is not timezone. It is just a 0 offset of global time.
This makes calculations easier and is less error prune. Only if you display or print something,
then it's converted to local timezone.
It's like a definition of coordinate systems. You have the world coordinates and on top you can put
many other coordinate systems with different offsets and angles. If you tell a robot drive to Point 10,
you have also to define on which coordinate system. If you work with a tool, then the tool coordinates helps,
to drive the tool straight in room. By definition Z is swapped. Z+ in World Coordinates means up. In tool coordinates Z+ is down.
Many things we use in real world, are defined by humans. We made the definition of Global Time.
But this does not mean, that we have defined also a timezone for aliens.
I guess they have their own standards and time format with localization.
For us it's important to have our standards, also for Aliens.
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