> Yes, I realise that. The times are being displayed by the gettys,
> controlled by the /etc/issue format string. Jobs are being run
> by cron, logs written by rsyslogd, and so on. And the term is … ?
Maybe there simply isn't such a term. The subject is sufficiently
complex/delicate that there can't be a term for every single situation.
I think we are losing sight of the fact that all of timekeeping is an abstraction and over-generalization. Time zones were created to help regularize railroad schedules over wide areas. Timezones are an abstraction that permit us to _pretend_ that it is (physical) noon at the same clock time over an extended area. When in fact physical high-noon, determined by the sun's position in the sky, cannot be at the exact same time just a few centimeters west or east of my eyeballs.