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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Does anybody really care?
If anyone ever wanted to show someone how “time” is a modern, man made construct…here ya go.
Only one? That will get old, eventually.
Not knowing what time it is on the moon has been keeping me up lately. Will there be Lunar Daylight Savings Time?
Not outside these people’s bubbles, no.
Even creating UTC was a waste. Could have stuck with GMT and just made it according to these “atomic clocks” I’ve never seen.
About time?......................
time on the moon is whatever it is when you are looking at it.
d’uh.
Time is a concept God originated. See Genesis 1:14. The notion of man deviating from God’s standard is mentioned in Daniel 7:25.
If so, I can’t imagine why.
oh nooooooo...
Anyone ever met a pretty lady whose diamond watch stopped cold dead?
Well, I vote for Zulu Tine as the official lunar time. If you are not for ZULU TIME, YOU’RE RACIST!
About time?
How about The Monkey Time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0KlRpQeyvo
Well, seeing as a day on the moon lasts 28 earth days, it probably requires a little more than just another “time zone”. Really it should have its own clock and calendar.
I’d like to leave that to real scientists, rather than government hacks.
GMT is the time zone defined as UTC+00:00. Just like EST is UTC−05:00. UTC is not a time zone per se.
Put a sundial on the moon.
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