Time System Design

UTMS’s time system is designed to offer high precision while remaining flexible and scalable. The decision to implement a logarithmic time system was driven by the desire to handle time at vastly different scales, from Planck time (extremely small) to cosmic time (astronomically large).

Key Concepts

• Time Anchors: Anchors serve as precise reference points in time. By creating anchors at key moments, users can compare and manipulate times relative to these points.

• Time Units: UTMS supports multiple time units, including seconds, minutes, hours, and custom units defined by the user.

• Logarithmic Scale: Time intervals are represented using a logarithmic scale, allowing for extremely small or large timescales to be handled effectively.

• Unit Conversions: UTMS supports conversion between different units, such as converting from seconds to hours or from microseconds to Planck time.

Time in UTMS is handled as a combination of these concepts, which are abstracted into commands like utms anchor create, utms unit convert, and others.