Practically all languages have tenses. How would we deal with this in our language? I recently had a brief conversation with one of the members of the group. Due to a writing error, he wrote PASTE TENSE instead of PAST TENSE, which I found amusing, but it is possible to take it seriously. We do not have to limit ourselves to a linear tense. We could cover alternate timelines, probability, and consider the source of the information as part of the grammatical tense. One of the languages I like the most for how it handles time is the following:
I don't say that we should use their tense system, but is a good reference material I think.