Europe pushing for lunar time zone
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Europe pushing for lunar time zone
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Re: Europe pushing for lunar time zone
#2> A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this
Just pin it to GMT and call it good.
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#4For some reason I thought this was going to be about an alternative to daylight savings time and any suggestion of abolishing that always gets my interest.
It's not though, it's about giving the moon its own time zone. Which is about that least exciting moon based news I've ever heard although I'm sure there's interesting technical challenges (which I sincerely hope I never have to deal with).
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#5> A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this Just pin it to GMT and call it good.
If the EU won’t bite the bullet and just adopt English as the official language, there’s no way they’re pinning this to Greenwich time
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#6This is fine to do while we are still talking about space missions and quick landings, but the moment there is a base and people start to live there semi-permanently you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day.
Timezones are already bad enough in software. Having to additionally account for the moon would make people quit the profession.
Re: Europe pushing for lunar time zone
#7This is fine to do while we are still talking about space missions and quick landings, but the moment there is a base and people start to live there semi-permanently you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day. Timezones are already bad enough in software. Having to additionally account for the moon would make people quit the profession.
> you won't be able to just pin it to UTC and call it a day.
Yeah you’d have to call it 29.5 days.
But joking aside, people live on ISS and use UTC despite their 90 minute “days”.
What we should really do is just get rid of all this crap and go with metric time that starts at an arbitrary moment and isn’t dependent on location.
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#8I would be happy if we got rid of timezones, got rid of daylight savings time, and got rid of 12 hour clocks.
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#9Still think life would be simpler if we all just adopted .beats (Swatch Internet Time): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time