ABS and relative times do exist on the HD24. ABS time is always 0 for the start of a song, but this is user definable (for example, to match a location on tape-based ADATs in the same sys-tem). All locate, punch and edit points will be automatically recalculated from the ABS time to display the new relative time (i.e., the points stay in the same place relative to audio…they're just numbered differently).