It does NOT indicate the time setting. For instance, jokes, which are narrations of past events, are often told in the present tense. Books are sometimes written in the present tense (look at the works of Patricia Cornwell for one), yet are about the past. Polite requests are often made in the past tense yet relate to the present. There are too many instances where tense does not indicate the time setting for anyone to say that it is the exception that proves the rule.
2007-12-17
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