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A Relativistic Framework to Establish Coordinate Time on the Moon and Beyond (arxiv.org)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Timezones are one thing. Accounting for relativistic drift will be a whole different problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m glad I’ll be dead before I have to think about dates and times that hard. I’ll never forgive that one island that moved the international dateline or the parts of the United States that don’t follow daylight savings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Nobody should follow DST. It's archaic and outdated.