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I think if humans ever get off this rock, we'll start with using Earth as the "GMT" of intersolar commerce and communication.

It's highly unlikely that humanity as we imagine it will still exist by the time our sun dies and that calendar becomes obsolete. If, somehow, our descendants continue to exist, they'll have experienced drastically divergent evolution on different planets, space stations, etc to the point of becoming almost entirely different.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Good thing we won't ever have to worry about it.

If we magically did, I don't think it would matter much since speed of light planet to planet communication is a sci-fi concept that would also never happen. And also I don't think it would be difficult to create programs that correct for it.

One little detail I like in Mass Effect is that the internet and communications technically do have large delays do to the logistics of sending information across the galaxy, but since you're military you're using reserved super special bandwidth channels that are basically as instant as normal internet >_>