[time-nuts] Time of death-Again

[Max Robinson]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jimlux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time of death-Again


> Steve Rooke wrote:
>> One thing we should bear in mind that our tombstone timestamp should
>> have things like the timezone, and calendar in use, references, such
>> that future people can determine the exact point in time of our death.
>> In fact, basing the timestamp on some true reference point would
>> better than about 2000 years after some event happened on earth as
>> archaeologists from other words coming to the Earth in the future
>> would be left to figure out this arbitrary time event. I would propose
>> that we relate the year portion (which is the LSB and most important)
>> to some celestial event thereby making it possible to document this
>> easily for future life-forms to determine. The whole year/date thing
>> really should be made secular as there is no place for religion in the
>> governance of society.
>>
>> Steve
>
>
> Is this not the same problem we all face when specifying an absolute time? 
> Is it TAI? GPS? UTC? etc.
>
> And, then, if you are moving, the local time offsettime  relative to some 
> reference might be different at different times.
>
> I think this is a sort of relativity question, isn't it?  That is, you 
> just have to pick some place/time, and reference everything else to that. 
> So which astronomical event do you want use as your reference (e.g. a T=0 
> epoch)and is it sufficiently well determined that you can figure it out 
> later?  It's all well and good, for instance, to use noon on January 1st, 
> 1900 or something as your time zero, but that's hardly a universally 
> available reference point.
>
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