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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.
As more robots and people travel to the moon in coming years, some researchers believe it's time to set a lunar time standard.

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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