What time is it on moon? Europe pushing for lunar time zone

Associated Press ^ | February 28, 2023 | Marcia Dunn

[dfwgator]

On WWV they would always refer to it as “Coordinated Universal Time”

[Olog-hai]

That’s why I said what I said.

[j.havenfarm]

Well we’re paying people whose job it is to think of such things. So at last they’re doing something

[dfwgator]

Well it’s always 5 O’Clock somewhere.

[granite]

Lunacy.

GMT: it's the same time everywhere, adjust your schedules.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is what happens when you make marijuana a recreational medicinal drug. The whole world goes wacky starting with Cauliphonya and then Europe.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is what you do to keep your mind off the fact that your society is collapsing.

[Yo-Yo]

Does anybody really care?

[muir_redwoods]

Each lunar day is about 29-1/2 earth days long so noon to 4:00 PM would take about five earth days.

Or maybe not.

[zeugma]

This is stupid. Folks on the moon or in space should use UTC.

[dfwgator]

Next they’ll be thinking about how to put things on top of other things.

[zeugma]

That’s just a translated version of UTC. For some reason, the abbreviation UTC is French, I suspect because official standards are located in Paris. Americans would have called it CUT (which would have been cooler IMO)

[x]

Why not just go along with the United Federation of Planets?

[x]

Not to nitpick, but that didn't sound right to me, so I looked it up.

English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC,[7] which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.).

[KarlInOhio]

Let’s land someone there soon or it will be ome Beijing time.

[fretzer]

WWVH too.

[Reno89519]

Use US Eastern time and keep the moon for us. And we’d better get their soon as others will otherwise stake their claims and leave us out.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

You want to know what time it is, Alice? Well, I’ll tell you what time it is . . . it’s time for you to GO TO THE MOON! Bang! Zoom!

[Olog-hai]

[MikelTackNailer]

Here's NASA's article on Telling Time on the Moon.