Time doesn't flow at a constant rate for anybody, that's a given. How can people express their relative metrics for different eras? Inessential.com searches for the right word:

"But what I’m thinking about today is a different though related sense of time. I don’t have a good term for it.
It’s the sense of recent history. Where does history end and recent history begin?
It’s different for every person."

A good vocabulary can make one an effective an efficient communicator. After all:

"...people’s senses of what is recent history don’t match, and this is a source of misunderstanding, confusion, and disagreement."

One could also ask, "what does green look like to you?"

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