Posted on 02/28/2023 11:27:36 AM PST by Olog-hai
With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.
This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the urgent need to establish “a common lunar reference time,” said the space agency’s Pietro Giordano, a navigation system engineer.
“A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this,” Giordano said in a statement.
For now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft. European space officials said an internationally accepted lunar time zone would make it easier for everyone, especially as more countries and even private companies aim for the moon and NASA gets set to send astronauts there.
NASA had to grapple with the time question while designing and building the International Space Station, fast approaching the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first piece.
While the space station doesn’t have its own time zone, it runs on Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is meticulously based on atomic clocks. That helps to split the time difference between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, and the other partnering space programs in Russia, Japan and Europe. …
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On WWV they would always refer to it as “Coordinated Universal Time”
That’s why I said what I said.
Well we’re paying people whose job it is to think of such things. So at last they’re doing something
Well it’s always 5 O’Clock somewhere.
GMT: it's the same time everywhere, adjust your schedules.
This is what happens when you make marijuana a recreational medicinal drug. The whole world goes wacky starting with Cauliphonya and then Europe.
This is what you do to keep your mind off the fact that your society is collapsing.
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.
This is stupid. Folks on the moon or in space should use UTC.
Next they’ll be thinking about how to put things on top of other things.
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)
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.).
Let’s land someone there soon or it will be ome Beijing time.
WWVH too.
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.
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!
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