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The moon may have a timezone of its own soon, Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC):
Due to the moon’s lower gravity and its motion relative to Earth, moon time passes 56 microseconds faster each earth day. As a result, an atomic clock on Earth would run at a different rate than an atomic clock on the moon.
Similar to how UTC is determined, the memo suggests “an ensemble of clocks” deployed to the moon might be used to set the new time standard.
(via David Cuthbert)
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