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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] RonSijm@programming.dev 32 points 7 months ago

Sure, we can compromise; they can have their own timezone, but it has a constant time value.

const moonTime = DateTime.Utc.MoonTime

[-] Sylver@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

As in, it is perpetually 4:20 PM on the moon?

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

nice.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

To the moon 🚀 🚀 🚀

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

That sounds... iffy. Thing is that UTC lags more and more behind TAI as UTC takes the earth's rotation into account, introducing leap seconds so that all the timezones don't slowly drift across the globe. Moon people care preciously little about the earth's rotation around its own axis, more relevant is its own day/night cycle which (because tidal lock) is an earth month. The system might just be stable enough so that UTC can simultaneously sync to that, you'd have to ask an astronomer.

Actually, no, forget it: The moon moves quite fast relatively to the earth's surface, more than enough for relativistic effects to apply -- they also apply to GPS satellites, stuff simply wouldn't work if those things ran on Newtonian maths. Sooner or later it's going to need adjustments due to that.