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There's a whole lot of social conventions tied to local time, sunrise/sundown, and the circadian rythm in general. Sure, it'd be possible but we'd have to conc
by 2000UltraDeluxe 4y ago
There's a whole lot of social conventions tied to local time, sunrise/sundown, and the circadian rythm in general.
Sure, it'd be possible but we'd have to concieve a lot of new cultural concepts to replace the ones invalidated by the shift to UTC, and find new ways to remind people that it's impolite to call people in the middle of the night.
In the long run, a list of time zones aren't that much more complicated to work with than a list of times when it's mid-day is in the major population centres on the planet.
- noworld 4y agoI don't think they meant replace all time zones with UTC, but just put the Moon on UTC.
- reportgunner 4y agoYeah, my point being that 1 minute passing is 60 seconds both on Earth and the moon. We have a Lunar calendar and the moon is tidally locked to Earth so it seems trivial to convert Earth time to Moon time. The terms "Earth time" and "Moon time" seem weird to me in themselves, in my view it's "Human time". I understand having a separate time for Mars or other planets as they have their own cycles.
- msm_ 4y ago> The terms "Earth time" and "Moon time" seem weird to me in themselves, in my view it's "Human time". - It's also weird the time on the moon would have to account for variations in earth rotatoin speed (as UTC does) - Time on the moon actually goes slower due to relativistic effect - the effect is small (in tens of microseconds per day) but measurable.
- reportgunner 4y agoYes the article states that the time goes slower on the moon but 56 microseconds every day is negligible. (there is 1000000 microseconds in every second) We can surely skip one second every 27 years on the moon if we are able to add 1 day every 4 years on earth.