<div dir="auto">Time zone and international dateline conventions aside, all points in time are equally real.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The present time then is just a mutual agreement of contemporaries, and the word 'now' carries no more objectivity than does the word 'here'.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've written more on this here:</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://alwaysasking.com/what-is-time/">https://alwaysasking.com/what-is-time/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 7:38 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I sent in a problem query to a software support team today and as it<br>
was Christmas Day, I was surprised to get an email reply a few minutes<br>
later explaining the problem. I thanked him for the quick reply, then<br>
commented that I didn't expect anybody to be working on Christmas Day.<br>
He replied quickly again and said, "We didn't work on Christmas Day<br>
either, but here in New Zealand it is now Boxing Day". !!!<br>
I've got used to US folk being 5 to 8 hours behind UK time, but NZ<br>
folk being into the next day ahead is a bit unsettling!<br>
What was Einstein saying about Relativity again?<br>
<br>
BillK<br>
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