In the case of a temporal-oriented application, this usually means some future action triggers based on a time.

在一个与时间相关的应用程序中，这通常意味着一些未来的基于时间的行动触发。

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These people were trapped in a time -- a present-oriented time zone in which you never think of the future, you never think of the past.

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