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

Associated Press ^ | February 28, 2023 | Marcia Dunn

[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 25^th 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. …

[teeman8r]

no time to listen to this, sorry

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPX48NpSRvo

[moovova]

What's next? Deer crossing signs?

[nwrep]

Huh? God invented time at the moment of creation.

[teeman8r]

i won’t be fooled to watch that one, again...

[GOYAKLA]

You would want to known the time, if you wanted to schedule a “Nooner”!

[Chode]

like the eurotrash will ever get there...

must have solved all their muslime problems i guess

[Reynoldo]

di-dah-dah
di-dah-dah
di-di-dit-dah

[grobdriver]

If you are not for ZULU TIME, YOU’RE RACIST!

LOL!!!

[telescope115]

Do we have to take libration into account? That might make things a little tricky.

[Vermont Lt]

So, god invented clocks?

You guys kill me with your myths and legends.

[maddog55]

I’m assuming it’s the same as UNIVERSAL time 👽🤣🤣

[xp38]

UTC?

[cgbg]

The European Space Agency is building the critical European service module for the Artemis program.

They are way way behind schedule—originally was supposed to be completed in 2020.

Here is how the mission is supposed to work:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/Artemis_III

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It’s about time,
It’s about space,
About strange people in the strangest place.

[dfwgator]

Now that’s obscure.

[zeugma]

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.).

Well then, I stand corrected! Thanks. That kinda makes more sense. I was going off of ancient, and probably damaged brain cells.

To further muddy the waters, IIRC, ff you listen to the time on shortwave, I'm think it says something like, At the tone the time will be XXX "coordinated universal time". I'd have to pull out my HAM rig to verify that though. Then again, i could be referencing damaged brain cells again. LOL.

[Republican Wildcat]

Now that is funny. :-)

[Chode]

[Chode]

The Artemis program is a robotic and human Moon exploration program led by the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

depending on us to get them there i guess