Europe pushing for lunar time zone

Post by soneil » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 2:22 PM UTC

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> Are relativity effects significant on the moon? Yes, as the article states, clocks run faster on the Moon. About 56 microseconds per day. Be that as it may, as far as I know, Newtonian gravity was sufficient for the moon landings. So I'm guessing this is more of a coordination issue between countries than a necessity for trajectories or such.

Forgive me my ignorance but does that mean that you age at a different speed at the moon compared to earth ?

Post by ithkuil » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 2:24 PM UTC

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Ireland and Malta are two EU members where English is one of the official languages.

But they picked Irish and Maltese ad their "EU must support it" language, since English was already there. When Brexit was looming there was a bit of a scare that when the UK was gone English would no longer be supported. But luckily the EU institutions were not insane.

Post by jjk166 » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 2:29 PM UTC

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I am a proponent of a Martian timekeeping system where each day has 24 hours 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds and all the rest of time units have standard lengths. For example, at midnight your martian clock would show the time as 24:39:35 for a fraction of a second, then wound back to 00:00:00. The calendar then would track the Earth calendar as close as possible, with shortened months to accommodate for the longer day…

Wouldn't that get incredibly confusing with the calendar always being slightly off, despite using the same names? At that point why not just stick to a integer day count for the date. Having a non-integer number of hours in a day might also get confusing. It would be near-impossible to make an analog clock, for example, and stuff like dividing up a day into three shifts would be really cumbersome. For day-to-day life…

Post by kubanczyk » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 2:34 PM UTC

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In the military, there is Zulu (+0 UTC/GMT) and Juliet time ("my" time). Every report with times should always indicate the timezone (whether Z or J or otherwise), e.g. in NYC 2pm would be 1400Y. Any recent/current military folks want to comment?

Is there a different single letter per time zone band? That’s almost elegant if so (as long as you ignore the many places with idiosyncratic time zones).

Post by coldpie » Thu, Mar 02, 2023, 2:35 PM UTC

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I was so convinced .beats would take over the world (or solar system in this case). I had their watch, I installed their task-bar clock plugin for Windows 98, I harped on about it to my friends... a surprising number of which actually agreed it was a good idea. Then it just kinda fizzled out. I'm still upset it didn't take off.

I never heard of this before but now that I looked it up I think it's a good idea. People will probably still want to keep their local times but at least for coordinating international stuff we should have one standard time for the entire world. It's insane that we still have to look up how certain time zones correlate to our own local times for online meetings and such. This can all be improved. Remember back in the…