The other challenges of space

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Zed

Maybe the ships had a year 100,000 problem. ;)

Also, if the ships were shut down completely in interstellar space and reactivated when there was enough light energy available, chronometers would be off.

A properly-designed time-keeping system could be made to work with trivial power, or even to self-supply power from radioactive decay.