NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives  - NASA
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NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC)
    • Rekhyt@beehaw.org
      1·
      23 days ago

      No time is universal because time moves at different speeds under different gravity. The point of this initiative is to be able to accurately measure time in the moon’s lower gravity.

      • Badabinski@kbin.earth
        3·
        23 days ago

        Yeah, the time drift between the earth and moon is small, but it’ll noticable for latency-sensitive software.

        God, I’d hate to be the dev that has to deal with relativistic time zone conversions. What a fucking nightmare that’d be…