It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this

No different than any other project the PM/PO team cooks up. Tons of work for no user base.

Watch Tom Scott descend into insanity discussing time zones

We've gone too far. Everyone just switch to UTC please. Yes, it means some will go to bed at 2pm and get up at 10pm, so what.

That's it, I'm only using epoch from now on, that's enough of your time zone shenanigans

All we need is a single universal Space-Time map that will tell the time (in any and all formats) at any point in space, taking into consideration, all the events caused by all the forces that cause existence, from the start of this universe. Then it can take the place of both, maps and clocks.

Just make sure it is memory safe. Oh and properly escape all queries. And also ...

That should last us until we start exploring the space outside the universe.

Nah dog, its gonna be UTC. End of story.

The proposed time zone is to drift about 1 second every 50 years. I also suspect it wouldn't really be a time zone in the same sense as the time zones we know - it would just be a standardised calibration reference. Dates and times expressed in "moon time" would probably just be some leap second off of a known Earth time zone, and because it's mere seconds over centuries, I think the only use of this time zone is to calculate ultra-precise time diffs between two earth datetimes when the observer is on the moon. At least, that's how I interpret the articles I can find about it.

So, I read something on this a little while ago. It has to do with the moon's weaker gravity making time progress at a different rate, so the lunar time zone gives a precise reference for sub-second (nanosecond I guess?) precision manoeuvres and such like.

Sure, we can compromise; they can have their own timezone, but it has a constant time value.

const moonTime = DateTime.Utc.MoonTime

i still think timezones were a mistake, and that they shouldn't exist period. I have a long thread about this from an earlier post about timezones as well amusingly enough.

It's own timezone? It'll need it's own clock. A moon day is about 28 Earth days.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich:

"Well, as the first to co-ordinate time we-"

The International Telecommunication Union and International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service in Unison:

"Excuse me, I think you'll find we manage the time."

NIST: "I don't see your footprints up there! We're going off my Omega Speedmaster!"

Anyone else keep nearly everything set to UTC?

Please end timezones. We only need one universal one and that's it.

the fact that the acronym for Coordinated Lunar Time is LTC tells you everything you need to know about how this will work.

Shouldn't it have its own time system? And have its own time zones? You can't give the moon its own single time zone (unless you're into the idea of a single universal time zone).

I say we compromise we will take the moon but they must give up daylight savings. it's only fair.

Moon people just have to switch to Universal Moon Time.

Shouldn't the moon have… 24 time zones as well, depending where on the moon you currently are?

Can't believe the US is putting trains on the moon before making them viable on Earth

i agree. the moon should suffer with all of us.

No link to the article in the picture?

Also, wouldn't it just be simple enough to make the Moon GMT, and be done with it?

Edit: This comment, that has a link to the actual government PDF, says it better than I.

"Forget it Jake, it's Moontown."

Why nyet we've never even been there?

The PR is getting way ahead of rocketry results. It's not helping that Elon is involved.

That's why I prefer TAI time zone