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Khashishi
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There are two ways for standards to be created. The first is for some dominant regime to force everyone to use their system. The second is for a bunch of people to convene and agree on a standard. I guess that the first is more prevalent in history. So in this fantasy scenario you have set up, everyone would probably end up using the time system of the capital of the dominant force. If humans are the dominant creatures, then this might just be Greenwich mean time or something. To all the aliens, it's just an arbitrary number with no meaning, but presumably they know how to calculate it from their tables.
As far as time synchronization being path dependent, everyone will have to agree to take the shortest path between points. This is not simple to calculate, but presumably these advanced societies have mapped out the cosmological metric using some suitable FTL sensors.
As far as time synchronization being path dependent, everyone will have to agree to take the shortest path between points. This is not simple to calculate, but presumably these advanced societies have mapped out the cosmological metric using some suitable FTL sensors.