The document that uses it then has to then be dated.
e.g. "I warmed up dinner one minute before present" ---> said ??? minutes ago. --> is dinner still warm? who knows.
I get that "about 7,000 years ago" is still going to be "about 7,000 years" for a very long time.
Still. Seems shortsighted to communicate dates via a moving target, especially for something that's already supposed to be thinking in very long terms.
Archaeologists, you'd think, would expect their words to stick around a long, long time, why would they use a short-sighted dating mechanism?
The document that uses it then has to then be dated.
e.g. "I warmed up dinner one minute before present" ---> said ??? minutes ago. --> is dinner still warm? who knows.
I get that "about 7,000 years ago" is still going to be "about 7,000 years" for a very long time.
Still. Seems shortsighted to communicate dates via a moving target, especially for something that's already supposed to be thinking in very long terms.
Archaeologists, you'd think, would expect their words to stick around a long, long time, why would they use a short-sighted dating mechanism?