> You're offended you're not being included as users of time?
Please refrain from personal attacks. It is unecessary and doesn’t add to the conversation. Thank you.
> I use Google Maps all the time. I used it for my last trip! How dare you.
Do note that your example didn’t say “nobody uses maps”. If an imaginary salesperson would say “nobody uses maps” I would call bulshit on that too.
> Yes, you're using time.
Great, so the company representative should simply not say “nobody is using time”. And the commenter I was responding to shouldn’t say that applications which are fine with a lower accuracy “aren't ‘using time’ in any real sense”.
Heck, all I know maybe nanosecond accuracy is where the bees knee is, and everyone is going to be amazed by the awesome new applications it is going to enable. But you don’t need to disregard all the history of timekeeping and all the current applications to make that point.
On 28 April 1789 a mutiny broke out on HMS Bounty. The ship’s former captain, departing on a rowboat, demanded that the mutineers give him K2 the ship’s chronometer. The mutineers refused, because the chronometer was worth about as much as the whole ship, and they needed it for their onward navigation. Somebody should have told them that they are not using time in any real sense. Probably they would have laughed at that idea.