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dittybopper_05H t1_j60euza wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What time is it on the Moon? - Satellite navigation systems for lunar settlements will require local atomic clocks. Scientists are working out what time they will keep. by speckz

You only need time zones if by definition you have access to daylight, and you depend on daylight. People who don't need that, like submarine crews, just run on an arbitrary time.

There's no reason why the entire Moon can't be on the same time zone, as the lunar day isn't 24 hours anyway, it's more like 27 days, and pretty much everyone will be underground.

So everyone will be on Coordinated Lunar Time, which will be abbreviated to LTC in a compromise with the French speaking world.

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