- inspectorst ( @inspectorst@feddit.uk ) 4•2 days ago
Will the clocks still go back and forward an hour to help the farmers get up early though?
- astrsk ( @astrsk@fedia.io ) 5•3 days ago
Isn’t UTC meant to be… you know, universal?
- Rekhyt ( @Rekhyt@beehaw.org ) 12•3 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 ( @Badabinski@kbin.earth ) 15•3 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…
- lnxtx ( @lnxtx@feddit.nl ) English4•3 days ago
Will your lunar server have the UTC or LTC clock?
I’m trying to understand the use case.
Day + night on the Luna have length of ~ 30 days.- 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠 ( @ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ) 7•3 days ago
Time moves at a different speed due to the moon’s reduced gravity. It’s not just the length of a day.
- itslilith ( @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•2 days ago
I’d assume that’s already a bigger problem for satellites in geostationary orbit then?
- 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠 ( @ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ) 2•2 days ago
Yes, but at least there they still use “Earth time”, just slowed down. For the moon it gets a little bit more complicated I guess.