If daylight saving time seems tricky, try figuring out the time on the Moon
Scientists are pondering how to tell time on other celestial bodies. It's a lot harder than you might think.
by Geoff Brumfiel
Mar 11, 2023
3 minutes
As U.S. clocks shift forward this weekend, many earthlings will find themselves momentarily confused about what time it is. But scientists say a far larger temporal problem is looming on the horizon: With multiple missions to the moon in the planning phase, it's time to set a Lunar time standard.
"We need to define a time on the moon," says of the European Space Agency (ESA). Without it, Ventura-Traveset warns, docking spacecraft could tumble into each other, astronauts might get
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