do you know what time it is on the moon
no well neither does the US government
and they're working to fix that and
programmers everywhere are punching the
air right now because of the US's
renewed efforts to get back to the moon
and also go to Mars they want us all to
start synchronizing our clocks with that
big ball of cheese NASA has a deadline
from the White House to get a
coordinated lunar time also known as LTC
done by the end of 2026 but it won't
stop there because the US says that it's
important to establish Celestial time
standards meaning we'll likely also have
to wait for Martian time to be invented
now all this sounds a bit silly it is
technically helpful because of time
relativity even if you had the same
perfectly accurate atomic clock on both
the Earth and the moon the Earth would
be behind by an extra 58.7 microc every
single day some major time slippage over
a long enough time scale