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We’re going to need a new data type: spacetime


I don't know if you were trying to make a joke or not, but you are absolutely right! With space travel, both are needed to tell time. Things get even more complicated quickly. Albeit, things like 15 minute timezone offsets from UTC will become a terrestrial problem.




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