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It is a curious thing - I think for the foreseeable future, we'd likely still track age via Earth years for the sake of avoiding this kind of thing. I wonder if/when we do colonize, how long would it take for the Martians to actually switch. How much would our cultures have drifted by that point?
And a related shower thought - until relatively recently (late 1960s), any definition we used to track time has been crazy localized to our planet, compared to other things in math and science where many of those concepts would still work the same elsewhere
This is actually how it's handled in the science fiction universes. Star Wars for example uses Corusant time as the standard across the galaxy.
Belters in the expanse are bitter at their colonial ancestors for dictating how they measure time and space
Aye beratna, it's hard to feel we matter out here, the distances are so vast, it's hard to believe that we can make a difference.