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by ivan_gammel 810 days ago
Maybe not just that. We generally need to establish the time of events on another celestial body and process that time locally. Having separate clocks is trivial, but recording correctly sequence of events that happened a few light-seconds away is interesting, when taking all effects into account. Should we record the local time of event? The observer time (=local time+distance+gravitational effects)?