« To understand why the Moon needs its own time zone, look no further than Einstein. His theories of relativity say that because time changes relative to speed and gravity, time moves slightly faster on our celestial neighbor (because of its weaker gravity). So, an Earth clock on the Moon would gain about 56 microseconds a day — enough to throw off calculations that could put future missions requiring precision in danger. »
NASA confirms _in September_ that they are doing the thing that in April they were told by the President to do.
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Moon time oh wow oh gee
grmelacz on
Don’t forget to create a moonlight saving time!
estransza on
As a programmer who constantly deals with “get a date time, cast from stupid format into less stupid format, cast to utc, save, retrieve, cast from utc to local, cast into stupid format, return” – please don’t. I’m already on a verge. Add a single one new time zone and I’ll become a terrorist, I swear /j
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« To understand why the Moon needs its own time zone, look no further than Einstein. His theories of relativity say that because time changes relative to speed and gravity, time moves slightly faster on our celestial neighbor (because of its weaker gravity). So, an Earth clock on the Moon would gain about 56 microseconds a day — enough to throw off calculations that could put future missions requiring precision in danger. »
Related NASA article: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasa-to-develop-lunar-time-standard-for-exploration-initiatives/
NASA confirms _in September_ that they are doing the thing that in April they were told by the President to do.
Moon time oh wow oh gee
Don’t forget to create a moonlight saving time!
As a programmer who constantly deals with “get a date time, cast from stupid format into less stupid format, cast to utc, save, retrieve, cast from utc to local, cast into stupid format, return” – please don’t. I’m already on a verge. Add a single one new time zone and I’ll become a terrorist, I swear /j
Great , another time zone to support
Need $10B for this research.
Lunar Standard Time