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Yes, at any point an orthogonal vector field is linearly independent from the coordinate basis vector field associated to the timelike KVF's "adapted" coordinate time ##t##.PeterDonis said:Because "orthogonal" implies "linearly independent", and the latter is a sufficient condition for defining a coordinate basis vector field.
However the question is: is such linearly independent vector field a coordinate basis vector field?