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I don't think they meant replace all time zones with UTC, but just put the Moon on UTC.

• reportgunner 4y ago
  Yeah, 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 ago
      Yes 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.