I'm asking if time is a construct of observers. Quantum positioning may well operate outside of time as we, the only known observers, understand it.

The presence of the Sun is not the query here.

Edit: I don't think pasting the article here for relevance is allowed but the heading “They have been trapped by their own inventiveness and audacity. And they must pay with their lives.”, the last paragraph of the OP's link, begs the very question I posed - the source of their anger - the observer trapped in time.