WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for X-Corp #1 by Tini Howard, Alberto Foche, Sunny Gho, VC's Clayton Cowles, and Tom Muller, on sale now.
Mutant Kind has been soaring to the top of the world as of late. They have introduced a whole new race of mutants to the world after emerging victorious from the X of Swords tournament, taken to the stars, and are now rising in the world of corporate business. All of these achievements have come as byproducts of the vibrant, flourishing mutant nation of Krakoa and every advantage that it has offered to its people. In fact, Krakoa is now playing such a vital role in mutant affairs that it has even been given its very own time zone.
Warren Worthington III and Monet St. Croix, aka Angel and Penance respectively, have become the faces of mutant kind's latest and greatest venture. The two of them are sitting at the highest table of the recently unveiled X-Corp, and there are no better mutants for the job. Not only are they each well-acquainted with the inner workings of such ventures, but they also know how to play to the cameras for the X-Corp promo they've been scheduled to shoot. Keeping time is more important than ever with so many moving parts in this massive undertaking, although the fact that Krakoa is located so far away from any other nation makes that somewhat difficult. As such, it only makes sense for the island nation to be given its own time zone in the form of Krakoan Standard Time, or KST for short.
Krakoan Standard Time might seem like an obvious fix for the problem at hand, but it only serves to highlight just how far removed from humanity the mutants of Krakoa really are. Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Krakoans that travel away from their homeland most often do so by way of the Krakoan Gates, interdimensional portals that serve to connect mutant kind to other friendly nations.
The fact that the mutants have created their own time zone shouldn't be all that surprising, though the reality of their isolation is much easier to imagine with its introduction as a concept. How exactly KST lines up with other time zones has not yet been clarified.
Of all of the recent advances for mutant kind, their immortality through the use of Cerebro and the efforts of The Five is easily the most impressive. The fact that the mutants of the modern era no longer fear the permanence of death make them formidable in every arena.
The resurrection protocols also bring into question just how much most mutants have to concern themselves with time. With the promise of unending resurrections for nearly every citizen of Krakoa, time itself may have very well become a more surreal, alien concept than it already was for many of them. Even if Krakoa's own time zone is more of a formality than anything else for mutants, it's still one of the biggest reminders of their presence for everyone else.
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