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·From Wednesday's article in Nature, there is an international committee attempting to decide on how to measure time on the Moon:
An interesting discussion of the issues of time zones, general relativity, and politics follows. Personally, I can't wait for the 2035 Speedmaster with an LMT (lunar mean time) complication!
It’s not obvious what form a universal lunar time would take. Clocks on Earth and the Moon naturally tick at different speeds, because of the differing gravitational fields of the two bodies. Official lunar time could be based on a clock system designed to synchronize with UTC, or it could be independent of Earth time.
An interesting discussion of the issues of time zones, general relativity, and politics follows. Personally, I can't wait for the 2035 Speedmaster with an LMT (lunar mean time) complication!
